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 A Winter's Tale by David Herbert Lawrence 
						Yesterday the fields were only grey with scattered snow,  And now the longest grass-leaves hardly emerge;
 Yet her deep footsteps mark the snow, and go
 On towards the pines at the hills' white verge.
 
 I cannot see her, since the mist's white scarf
 Obscures the dark wood and the dull orange sky;
 But she's waiting, I know, impatient and cold, half
 Sobs struggling into her frosty sigh.
 
 Why does she come so promptly, when she must know
 That she's only the nearer to the inevitable farewell;
 The hill is steep, on the snow my steps are slow—
 Why does she come, when she knows what I have to tell?
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