The Invalid
THE INVALID
Speak to me of winter,
Of icy winds that keen and cry,
And shake the ivy strung by the lake
And push the clotted clouds along the sky.
To all a season,
And ever a season must end–
Life is born in a cry
And dies in a slacking of the wind.
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