"Wintry boughs against a wintry sky; Yet the sky is partly blue And the clouds are partly bright:β Who can tell but sap is mounting high Out of sight, Ready to burst through?"
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Christina G. Rossetti, "Spring signals to Winter", st. 1. Poems (1890), p. 382
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