<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</SPAN></span></p>
<h3>XVIII</h3>
<h3><i>Winter Song</i></h3>
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<span class="i0">Oh, it’s winter, winter, when you’re here,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">And summer when you’re gone.<br/></span>
<span class="i0">What need of birds when hearts sing clear,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">From dusk of day to dawn?<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">The noble wind, the silver snow,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">High stars, and, best of all,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">The red-rose hearth—a golden glow<br/></span>
<span class="i2">When twilight curtains fall.<br/></span></div>
<div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">Who’d cry the heat of summer skies,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">The bare, despairing sun,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">The languid flowers, with closing eyes,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">The earth’s fair wooing done?<br/></span></div>
<div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">The possibilities of spring,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">The reticence of bliss,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Love with the winter’s argent wing,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">We’ll scorn the sun for this.<br/></span></div>
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