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Hardy,
Thomas
A British novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement.. English novelist and poet
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The Farm Woman's Winter
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Written by:
Thomas
Hardy
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If seasons all were summers,
And leaves would never fall,
And hopping casement-comers
Were foodless not at all,
And fragile folk might be here
That white winds bid depart;
Then one I used to see here
Would warm my wasted heart!
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One frail, who, bravely tilling
Long hours in gripping gusts,
Was mastered by their chilling,
And now his ploughshare rusts.
So savage winter catches
The breath of limber things,
And what I love he snatches,
And what I love not, brings.
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