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APPROACH OF WINTER by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

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First Line: THE HALF-STRIPPED TREES
Last Line: EDGE THE BARE GARDEN.
Subject(s): WINTER;
The half-stripped trees
struck by a wind together,
bending all,
the leaves flutter drily
and refuse to let go
or driven like hail
stream bitterly out to one side
and fall
where the salvias, hard carmine, --
like no leaf that ever was --
edge the bare garden.



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