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 POEMS. 103

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A LIGHT exists in spring At any other period.
 * Not present on the year

When March is scarcely here

A color stands abroad

On solitary hills That science cannot overtake,

But human nature feds.

It waits upon the lawn ;

It shows the furthest tree Upon the furthest slope we know

It almost speaks to me.

Then, as horizons step,

Or noons report away, Without the formula of sound,

It passes, and we stay :

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