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Delight

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Winter is fallen     On the wretched grass,     Dark winds have stolen     All the colour that was.     No leaf shivers:     The bare boughs bend and creak as the wind moans by     Fled is the fitful gleam of brightness     From the stooping sky.     A robin scatters     Like bright rain his song,     Of merry matters     The sparrows gossip long.     Snow in the sky     Lingers, soon to cover the world with white,     And hush the slender enchanting music     And chill the delight.     But snow new fallen     On the stiffened grass     Gives back beauty stolen     By the winds as they pass:--     Turns the climbing hedge     Into a gleaming ladder of frozen light:     And hark, in the cold enchanted silence     A cry of delight!

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