"December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond Summer sympathies ensnared; Nor from the perfect circle of the year Can even Winter's crystal gems be spared."
— December

January 1, 1970

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, "December" (1872), stanza 8, in The Bird and the Bell, with Other Poems (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875), p. 191.