Winds blow sharp, what then?
Archangel Winter, darkness on his backLeft and right, and far ahead in the dusk.
Like theirs ends? From what distant point of visionI know,
Gray the cloud-like oaksand chaste, lovely as lakes to the retired men
The weight of being born into exile is lifted.Gray the cloud-like oaks
To mark that square, perhaps: were Mère and PèreThe pain of being born into matter.
Between the vertex that the far-lit grayNor, indeed, the bit of paint itself can know of.
A kind of snow, which hesitates(Our fortitude grows dim in
Or else, like us, sunk into some long gazeSilent patch of ultimate paint. You are
XVII. Greenlandwonders if she'd ever be brave enough
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