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| | Momentous and trivial, I |
| walk along the lake cliff |
| and look north where the lake |
| curls to a wisp through the hills |
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| and say as if to the lake, |
| I'm here, too, |
| and to the winter storm centered |
| gnarl-black over the west bank, |
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| I nearly call out, it's me, I'm here: |
| the wind-fined |
| snow nicks |
| my face, mists my lashes |
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| and the sun, not dwindling me, goes |
| on down behind the storm and the reed |
| withes' wind doesn't whistle, brother! brother! |
| and no person comes. |
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