Tiny immortal streams are on the move:
The sun his hand uncloses like a statue,
Irrevocably thereby such light is freed
That all the dingy hospital of snow
Dies back to ditches Chalkbeds of heaven bear
These nameless tributaries, but they run
To earth. For here their pouring river reigns,
Here, busy with resurrection, sovereign waters
Confer among the roots, causing to fall
From patient memory forestfuls of grief.
How easily it falls, how easily I let drift
On the surface of morning feathers of self-reproach:
How easily I disperse the scolding of snow.
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