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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ETCHINGS: 1. COLD, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poet's Biography
First Line: Winter...And still winter
Last Line: Of the years!
Subject(s): Cold; Hearts; Winter
First Line: Winter...And still winter
Last Line: Of the years!
Subject(s): Cold; Hearts; Winter
Winter ... and still winter!
Down hill stagger the corn-stooks, heavy with ice.
Sheep in the bottom shiver.
The abandoned barn crumbles with wind and cold.
An elm darns like a crone above it,
With needle limbs that creak and clash
In and out endlessly:
But a rent of the sky still lets the snow in.
And my heart lets in the chill of the years...
Of the years!
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