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CDXXXIII
Monet's Magpie
Footsteps upon the snow

because you do not care to know
lead to the hearth of the roaring Night

Because (you do not care)

so numbed with white
and O the cruel, unabatingly ferocious Qualm

that you do not know
how staggering's that Calm
smothering of snow--!

beyond all signs of your any requite
they sink into th'white The Dark they bear

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