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Edward Thomas - But These Things Also
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But these things also are Spring`s -
On banks by the roadside the grass
Long-dead that is greyer now
Than all the Winter it was;

The shell of a little snail bleached
In the grass; chip of flint, and mite
Of chalk; and the small birds` dung
In splashes of purest white:

All the white things a man mistakes
For earliest violets
Who seeks through Winter`s ruins
Something to pay Winter`s debts,

While the North blows, and starling flocks
By chattering on and on
Keep their spirits up in the mist,
And Spring`s here, Winter`s not gone.
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