And all at once it is the meadow I walked in at ten,
In the dread circle hemmed by glaciers,Escapees from the cold work of living,
With my foot the supple ball, for perhapsSwaying in unison beneath the snow,
Only a whiter absence to my mind,Only a whiter absence to my mind,
then takes a step back, to be safe as she reaches.Stars, the last day, endless and centerless,
Trampled snow is the only rose.their bellies, they're out cold, instantaneously
And half-starved foxes shake and pawSits at the limit of a kind of world
Given by nature will soak into it.Scrawny wolves, and you,
Upon from the right by far trees, that white placeOut of the picture of life, as it were, out
Brush the lone giant in that somber pall.Toward the still dab of white that oscillates
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