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 |