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A WINTER SCENE
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To their retreat
I track the feet
Of mice that eat
The apple's root.


The snow-dust falls,
The otter crawls,
The partridge calls,
Far in the wood.
The traveller dreams,
The tree-ice gleams,
The blue-jay screams
In angry mood.


The willows droop,
The alders stoop,