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The Year's Awakening

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How do you know that the pilgrim track     Along the belting zodiac     Swept by the sun in his seeming rounds     Is traced by now to the Fishes' bounds     And into the Ram, when weeks of cloud     Have wrapt the sky in a clammy shroud,     And never as yet a tinct of spring     Has shown in the Earth's apparelling;         O vespering bird, how do you know,          How do you know?     How do you know, deep underground,     Hid in your bed from sight and sound,     Without a turn in temperature,     With weather life can scarce endure,     That light has won a fraction's strength,     And day put on some moments' length,     Whereof in merest rote will come,     Weeks hence, mild airs that do not numb;         O crocus root, how do you know,          How do you know?     February 1910.

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