"Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white; And reigns the winter's pregnant silence still; No sign of spring, save that the catkins fill, And willow stems grow daily red and bright. These are days when ancients held a rite Of expiation for the old year's ill, And prayer to purify the new year's will."

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Source : Helen Hunt Jackson (1891). “A Calendar of Sonnets”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

Helen Hunt Jackson

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