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A Town Window

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Beyond my window in the night     Is but a drab inglorious street,     Yet there the frost and clean starlight     As over Warwick woods are sweet.     Under the grey drift of the town     The crocus works among the mould     As eagerly as those that crown     The Warwick spring in flame and gold.     And when the tramway down the hill     Across the cobbles moans and rings,     There is about my window-sill     The tumult of a thousand wings.

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