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MIDWINTER ABSENCE, by                    
First Line: My love, when next the small soft feathered fifes
Last Line: My love, of hope and fear and wonderings.
Subject(s): Winter


My love, when next the small soft feathered fifes
Of spring streak north across the changeful sky --
When we walk side by side again, and life's
Great growing evidences prophesy
The color and shape of May's brocade of flowers,
And the brook's an old dog, rumbling in his throat:
What shall we have of sad and happy hours?
From day to day we tune the future's note
And seek to fill the mind's vast eager craw
With gulped-down earnest of time's cryptic fare:
If we could know all, taste all, see all -- ah,
But knowing all we'd still be in the snare
Of time! The winter holds a thousand springs,
My love, of hope and fear and wonderings.





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