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FEBRUARY THAW by KENNETH SLADE ALLING

First Line: NOW THESE EPHEMERAL GLACIERS MOVE
Last Line: AND OCCULT ECSTASIES OF SOUND.
Subject(s): SPRING;

Now these ephemeral glaciers move,
And racked apart by rain and sun,
Disintegrate; and with strange cries,
A thousand crying rivers run.

Not yet the spring and singing frogs;
But these bright rainbows of the ground
Are promises, and they are words,
And occult ecstasies of sound.



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