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No Songs In Winter

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The sky is gray as gray may be,     There is no bird upon the bough,     There is no leaf on vine or tree.     In the Neponset marshes now     Willow-stems, rosy in the wind,     Shiver with hidden sense of snow.     So too 'tis winter in my mind,     No light-winged fancy comes and stays:     A season churlish and unkind.     Slow creep the hours, slow creep the days,     The black ink crusts upon the pen--     Just wait till bluebirds, wrens, and jays     And golden orioles come again!

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