<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358061" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Winter Rhapsody</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Winter has come; and tardily <br>Now little nipping winds are rife<br>Where laggard leaves, on many a tree,<br>Still cling tenaciously to life.<br>Spent Autumn with a myriad hues<br>Had laughed at death and mocked the worm.<br>And now bluff Winter shouts glad news<br>Of Winter joys, which I refuse,<br>I simply sit and squirm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Winter, too, holds many joys,<br>Pert flappers, furred to ears and chin,<br>With painted lips, to lure the boys,<br>And hose that lets the breezes in<br>Go laughing by . . . A gladness cleaves<br>E'en to yon toiler, who with firm,<br>Swift strokes, sweeps up the fallen leaves<br>And, working, whistles. . . . No Man grieves<br>Save I who sit and squirm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He whistles on in merry mood,<br>And sweeps, and sweeps along the street.<br>'How like all futile life,' I brood.<br>Nought but frustration, death, defeat.<br>For as he sweeps, poor toiling hack <br>Sweeps up dead leaf and deadly germ,<br>Rude winds arise and sweep them back,<br>And all's to do again! Alack!<br>I sit, and sneer, and squirm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I squirm to hear the football fans'<br>Impassioned cry of 'On the ball!'<br>Lure of the links, the punter's plans <br>I squirm, I squirm, and scorn them all,<br>I squirm while thrushes, fluting free,<br>Shout triumph over clammy care....<br>Ah, laggard leaf upon the tree,<br>Squirm on, and join my thenody;<br>For Winter's only gift to me<br>Is woollen underwear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358061" data-title="Winter Rhapsody de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="Winter has come; and tardily Now little nipping winds are rife Where laggard leaves, on many a tree, Still cling tenaciously to life. Spent Autumn with a myriad hues Had laughed at death and mocked the worm. And now bluff Winter shouts glad news ..."></div> </div> </div>

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