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Some men there are who cannot spare         A single tear until they feel         The last cold pressure, and the heel     Is stamped upon the outmost layer.     And, waking, some will sigh to think         The clouds have borrowed winter's wing,         Sad winter, when the grasses spring     No more about the fountain's brink.     And some would call me coward fool:         I lay a claim to better blood,         But yet a heap of idle mud     Hath power to make me sorrowful.

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