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CYCLAMENS by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY

First Line: THEY ARE TERRIBLY WHITE
Last Line: OF THIS HANDFUL OF CYCLAMEN.
Subject(s): CYCLAMEN; PLANTS; PLANTING; PLANTERS;
They are terribly white:
There is snow on the ground,
And a moon on the snow at night;
The sky is cut by the winter light;
Yet I, who have all these things in ken,
Am struck to the heart by the chiselled white
Of this handful of cyclamen.


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