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Prairie

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Where yesterday rolled long waves of gold      Beneath the burnished blue of the sky,     A silver-white sea lies still and cold,      And a bitter wind blows by.     But nothing passes the door all day,      Though my watching eyes grow worn and dim,     Save a lean, grey wolf that swings away      To the far horizon rim.     Then, one by one, the stars glisten out      Like frozen tears on a purple pall -     The darkness folds my cabin about      And the snow begins to fall.     I will make a hearth-fire red and bright      And set a light by the window pane     For one who follows the trail to-night      That will bring him home again.     Love will ride with him my heart to bless -      Joy will out-step him across the floor -     What matters the great white loneliness      When we bar the cabin door?

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