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Improvisations: Light And Snow: 11

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As I walked through the lamplit gardens,     On the thin white crust of snow,     So intensely was I thinking of my misfortune,     So clearly were my eyes fixed     On the face of this grief which has come to me,     That I did not notice the beautiful pale colouring     Of lamplight on the snow;     Nor the interlaced long blue shadows of trees;     And yet these things were there,     And the white lamps, and the orange lamps, and the lamps of lilac were there,     As I have seen them so often before;     As they will be so often again     Long after my grief is forgotten.     And still, though I know this, and say this, it cannot console me.

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