spruce-spire

Updated: May 4, 2025

Then, while a robin mounted to a spruce-spire and acted as Job's comforter to all the birds of the garden by singing ah, so plaintively and sweetly! of the dismal days of frost and snow, he "preened" i.e. went over and combed every feather, and tested and retested, cleaned and recleaned, each vital quill.

F. St. Mars - The Way of the Wild