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A WINTER HEDGEROW by WILLIAM SHARP

First Line: THE WINTRY WOLDS ARE WHITE; THE WIND
Last Line: THE SHREWMICE SLEEP 'MID NESTED LEAVES.
Subject(s): WIND; WINTER;

The wintry wolds are white; the wind
Seems frozen; in the shelter'd nooks
The sparrows shiver; the black rooks
Wheel homeward where the elms behind
The manor stand; at the field's edge
The redbreasts in the blackthorn hedge

Sit close and under snowy eaves
The shrewmice sleep 'mid nested leaves.



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