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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NIVE CANDIDUM SORACTE, by JACK MERTEN
First Line: There are those who laugh for the winter
Last Line: Which persists in chattering and shivering outside.
Subject(s): Cold; Mountain Climbing; Skiing; Winter
First Line: There are those who laugh for the winter
Last Line: Which persists in chattering and shivering outside.
Subject(s): Cold; Mountain Climbing; Skiing; Winter
There are those who laugh for the winter,
When great tufts of snow clink against the window-panes;
Who shout when the hard blue ice skirls under the grinding of steel skates;
Who roar when the wind electrically thrills their bodies under high-blown
overcoats;
Who exult, when their breath, like a rubber balloon, soars off as they ski over
a mountain-top;
Who revel when white spheres plump a beau's chapeau;
There are these—
But not I, who, inside,
Over a red fire abide,
Toasting in the hot flames marshmallow thoughts
To feed my animal imagination,
Which persists in chattering and shivering outside.
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