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Winter In The Boulevard

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The frost has settled down upon the trees     And ruthlessly strangled off the fantasies     Of leaves that have gone unnoticed, swept like old     Romantic stories now no more to be told.     The trees down the boulevard stand naked in thought,     Their abundant summery wordage silenced, caught     In the grim undertow; naked the trees confront     Implacable winter's long, cross-questioning brunt.     Has some hand balanced more leaves in the depths of the twigs?     Some dim little efforts placed in the threads of the birch? -     It is only the sparrows, like dead black leaves on the sprigs,     Sitting huddled against the cerulean, one flesh with their perch.     The clear, cold sky coldly bethinks itself.     Like vivid thought the air spins bright, and all     Trees, birds, and earth, arrested in the after-thought     Awaiting the sentence out from the welkin brought.

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"The frost has settled down upon the trees..."

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