More beautiful than anything in this world.This perfection, this absence.Nor, indeed, the bit of paint itself can know of.Cascading snowflakes settle in the pines,Of a far barn, just where the road curves sharplyReshaping magnified, each risen flakeMy soul lies cracked; and when, in its despair,High on this surface, guarding the edge of PèreAnd up there I cannot tell if it is stillWrithing their stunted limbs,the old men burnish stories of Yaz and the BabeArchangel Winter, darkness on his backto try that, to hold a terrifying beastBillows the fog, cloaksYour gloved hands covering your lips' good-byeLike theirs ends? From what distant point of visionOf meaning like these—the world created bysnowdrops and crocuses might be fooledXV. The International Circumpolar Stations: The Greely Expedition
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