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 Cambridge, Spring 1937 by Delmore Schwartz 
						At last the air fragrant, the bird's bubbling whistleSuccinct in the unknown unsettled trees:
 O little Charles, beside the Georgian colleges
 And milltown New England; at last the wind soft,
 The sky unmoving, and the dead look
 Of factory windows separate, at last,
 From windows gray and wet:
 for now the sunlight
 Thrashes its wet shellac on brickwalk and gutter,
 White splinters streak midmorning and doorstep,
 Winter passes as the lighted streetcar
 Moves at midnight, one scene of the past,
 Droll and unreal, stiff, stilted and hooded.
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