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Improvisations: Light And Snow: 14

Conrad Aiken

Like an old tree uprooted by the wind
And flung down cruelly
With roots bared to the sun and stars
And limp leaves brought to earth —
Torn from its house —
So do I seem to myself
When you have left me.
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From Improvisations: Light And Snow | 1922
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