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I gave thee what could not be heard
What had not been given before
The beat of my heart I gave !


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Throughout the winter, nature's active and crescent principle seems never held wholly in abeyance. From time to time, some precocious member of a dormant family, plant or animal, may be observed awake and stirring, as one who, having much on hand to accomplish, makes an early start by candle-light.

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Who turns away from gazing at the sun Sees its dusk images fill all the air. It is not otherwise when Hope is done: Her darkling phantoms make the heaven of Despair.

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I follow my law and fulfil it all duly and look! when your doubt runneth high North points to the needle!

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The spirit of the year, like bacchant crowned, With lighted torch goes careless on his way; And soon bursts into flame the maple's spray, And vines are running fire along the ground.

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Edith M. Thomas

Edith M. Thomas
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Born: August 12, 1854
Died: September 13, 1925 (aged 71)
Bio: Edith Matilda Thomas was an American poet who "was one of the first poets to capture successfully the excitement of the modern city."
Known for:
  1. In sunshine land
  2. A Winter Swallow, With Other Verse (1896)
  3. Fair Shadow Land (1893)
  4. The White Messenger, and Other War Poems (1915)
  5. The dancers (1903)

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