"How do you know, deep underground, Hid in your bed from sight and sound, Without a turn in temperature, With weather life can scarce endure, That light has won a fraction’s strength, And day put on some moments’ length, Whereof in merest rote will come, Weeks hence, mild airs that do not numb; O crocus root, how do you know, How do you know?"
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Thomas Hardy, "The Year’s Awakening" (February 1910), st. 2, in Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Remedies (1914)
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