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PLACES

And iridescent crystals fall and crackle on the snow-crust
With the winter sun drawing cold blue shadows from the trees.


Violet now, in veil on veil of evening
The hills across from Cromwell grow dreamy and far;
A wood-thrush is singing soft as a viol
In the heart of the hollow where the dark pools are;
The primrose has opened her pale yellow flowers
And heaven is lighting star after star.


Places I love come back to me like music—
Mid-ocean, midnight, the waves buzz drowsily;
In the ship's deep churning the eerie phosphorescence

Is like the souls of people who were drowned at sea,

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