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MAIN STREET AND OTHER POEMS THE SNOWMAN IN THE YARD

(For Thomas Augustine Daly)

HE Judge's house has a splendid porch, with pillars and steps of stone,

And the Judge has a lovely flowering hedge that came from across the seas;

In the Hales' garage you could put my house and everything I own,

And the Hales have a lawn like an emerald and a row of poplar trees.

Now I have only a little house, and only a little lot,

And only a few square yards of lawn, with dandelions starred;

But when Winter comes, I have something there that the Judge and the Hales have not,

And it's better worth having than all their wealth—it's a snowman in the yard.

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