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Sonnet--To One Poem In A Silent Time

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Who looked for thee, thou little song of mine?          This winter of a silent poet's heart          Is suddenly sweet with thee, but what thou art,     Mid-winter flower, I would I could divine.     Art thou a last one, orphan of thy line?          Did the dead summer's last warmth foster thee?          Or is Spring folded up unguessed in me,     And stirring out of sight,--and thou the sign?     Where shall I look--backwards or to the morrow          For others of thy fragrance, secret child?                 Who knows if last things or if first things claim thee?     --Whether thou be the last smile of my sorrow,          Or else a joy too sweet, a joy too wild?                 How, my December violet, shall I name thee?

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