| One must have a mind of winter | |
| To regard the frost and the boughs | |
| Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; | |
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| And have been cold a long time | |
| To behold the junipers shagged with ice, | 5 |
| The spruces rough in the distant glitter | |
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| Of the January sun; and not to think | |
| Of any misery in the sound of the wind, | |
| In the sound of a few leaves, | |
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| Which is the sound of the land | 10 |
| Full of the same wind | |
| That is blowing in the same bare place | |
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| For the listener, who listens in the snow, | |
| And, nothing himself, beholds | |
| Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. | 15 |