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 WOT OF 
 
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 WOR WINTERS 
 
 
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"No employment, my lo 
 A marginal note in the master boot, tfl 
 A voluntary lord." 
 
 THE DUCHESS 
 
Copyright, 
 1922 
 
 by MUSTERBOOKHOUSI. 
 
The Magpie s Shadow 
 
 By 
 
 YVOR WINTERS A 
 
 i/ A* 
 
 MUSTERBOOKHOUSE 
 CHICAGO 
 IQ22 
 
761 
 
 T5354S 
 .153 M3 
 
 Bamet Mcoroa Collection 
 
To 
 M. V. C. 
 
 AND 
 
 H. B. S. 
 
 895 
 
O saisons, o chateaux 1 
 
I: IN WINTER 
 
MYSELF 
 
 Pale mornings, and 
 I rise. 
 
STILL MORNING 
 Snow air my fingers curl. 
 
 [12] 
 
AWAKENING 
 New snow, O pine of dawnl 
 
 [13] 
 
WINTER ECHO 
 Thin air! My mind is gone. 
 
THE HUNTER 
 
 I 
 Run! in the magpie s shadow. 
 
 [15] 
 
NO BEING 
 I, bent Thin nights receding. 
 
 16] 
 
II: IN SPRING 
 
SPRING 
 I walk out the world s door. 
 
 [19] 
 
MAY 
 Oh, evening in my hair I 
 
SPRING RAIN 
 My doorframe smells of leaves. 
 
SONG ;. 
 
 Why should I stop 
 for spring? 
 
HI: IN SUMMER AND AUTUMN 
 
SUNRISE < 
 
 i.~\ ". 
 
 Pale bees! Oh, whither now? 
 
 [25] 
 
FIELDS. 
 
 I did not pick 
 a flower. 
 
AT EVENING 
 I ike leaves my fret passed by. 
 
COOL NIGHTS 
 At night bare feet on flowers 1 
 
 [28] 
 
SLEEP 
 Like winds my eyelids close. 
 
THE ASPEN S SONG 
 The summer holds me- here, 
 
 [SO] 
 
THE WALKER 
 In dream, my feet are still 
 
BLUE MOUNTAIN 
 A deer walks, that. mountain. 
 
GOD OF ROADS 
 I, peregrine of noon. 
 
SEPTEMBER 
 Faint gold! O think not here! 
 
: A DEER 
 The trees rose in the dawn. 
 
 [37] 
 
MAN IN DESERT 
 His feet run as eyes blink. 
 
 1*8] 
 
DESERT 
 The tented autumn, gone 1 
 
 [39] 
 
THE END 
 Dawn rose, and desert shrunk, 
 
 140] 
 

 
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