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WINTRY WEATHER by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861)

First Line: O WINTER! WILT THOU NEVER, NEVER GO?
Last Line: THROUGH THE WHITE SPACES OF INFINITUDE.
Subject(s): NATURE; WINTER;

O WINTER! wilt thou never, never go?
O summer! but I weary for thy coming,
Longing once more to hear the Luggie flow,
And frugal bees, laboriously humming.
Now the east-wind diseases the infirm,
And they must crouch in corners from rough weather;
Sometimes a winter sunset is a charm, --
When the fired clouds, compacted, blaze together,
And the large sun dips red behind the hills.
I, from my window, can behold this pleasure;
And the eternal moon, what time she fills
Her orb with argent, treading a soft measure,
With queenly motions of a bridal mood,
Through the white spaces of infinitude.



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