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Winter-Break

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All day between high-curded clouds the sun     Shone down like summer on the steaming planks.     The long, bright icicles in dwindling ranks     Dripped from the murmuring eaves till one by one     They fell. As if the spring had now begun,     The quilted snow, sun-softened to the core,     Loosened and shunted with a sudden roar     From downward roofs. Not even with day done     Had ceased the sound of waters, but all night     I heard it. In my dreams forgetfully bright     Methought I wandered in the April woods,     Where many a silver-piping sparrow was,     By gurgling brooks and spouting solitudes,     And stooped, and laughed, and plucked hepaticas.

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