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The Optimist

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The fields were bleak and sodden. Not a wing     Or note enlivened the depressing wood,     A soiled and sullen, stubborn snowdrift stood     Beside the roadway. Winds came muttering     Of storms to be, and brought the chilly sting     Of icebergs in their breath. Stalled cattle mooed     Forth plaintive pleadings for the earth's green food.     No gleam, no hint of hope in anything.     The sky was blank and ashen, like the face     Of some poor wretch who drains life's cup too fast.     Yet, swaying to and fro, as if to fling     About chilled Nature its lithe arms of grace,     Smiling with promise in the wintry blast,     The optimistic Willow spoke of spring.

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