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A Winter's Tale

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Yesterday the fields were only grey with scattered snow,     And now the longest grass-leaves hardly emerge;     Yet her deep footsteps mark the snow, and go     On towards the pines at the hills' white verge.     I cannot see her, since the mist's white scarf     Obscures the dark wood and the dull orange sky;     But she's waiting, I know, impatient and cold, half     Sobs struggling into her frosty sigh.     Why does she come so promptly, when she must know     That she's only the nearer to the inevitable farewell;     The hill is steep, on the snow my steps are slow -     Why does she come, when she knows what I have to tell?

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