Anecdotal Evidence: `Life Changes Yet Remains the Same'

Anecdotal Evidence: `Life Changes Yet Remains the Same'
Excerpt:

Having just seen a lone goldfinch on a feeder in the backyard, I found Stanford’s “Summer Scene” stirring:

“With movement perfect and controlled
Through silence like the hush of sleep
The goldfinch cleaves the immobile deep,
Pale azure, in a loop of gold.

“Life changes yet remains the same.
The goldfinch flashes and is gone,
But through the emptiness is drawn,
The oriole’s thin dividing flame.”

[Me, too. I.E., et al. The goldfinches, the scarlet tinted wrens,...I love them all.]