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BEFORE WARM FEBRUARY WINDS
Before warm February winds
Arouse an April dream—
Or sudden rifts of azure sky
Suggest the bluebird's gleam;
Before the reddening woods awake,
Before the brooks are free—
Here where all things are sold and hired,
The driven months we see.
Wither along our snow-soiled streets,
Or under glass endure,
Fruits of the days that have not come,
Exotic—premature.
I hear in raw, unwelcome dawns
The sordid sparrows sing,
And in the florist's windows watch
The forced and purchased spring.
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