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Improvisations: Light And Snow: 15

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The music of the morning is red and warm;     Snow lies against the walls;     And on the sloping roof in the yellow sunlight     Pigeons huddle against the wind.     The music of evening is attenuated and thin     The moon seen through a wave by a mermaid;     The crying of a violin.     Far down there, far down where the river turns to the west,     The delicate lights begin to twinkle     On the dusky arches of the bridge:     In the green sky a long cloud,     A smouldering wave of smoky crimson,     Breaks in the freezing wind: and above it, unabashed,     Remote, untouched, fierly palpitant,     Sings the first star.

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