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This is a most wonderful thread, and ought to be an anthology. Going back to the beginning, here's a bit of Christmas cheer - or not - by Thomas
Hardy.

THE REMINDER – Thomas Hardy

While I watch the Christmas blaze
Paint the room with ruddy rays,
Something makes my vision glide
To the frosty scene outside.

There, to reach a rotting berry,
Toils a thrush – constrained to very
Dregs of food by sharp distress,
Taking such with thankfulness.

Why, O starving bird, when I
One day’s joy would justify,
And put misery out of view,
Do you make me notice you?
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