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POEMS, 169

XLVI.

IT can't be summer, — that got through;
It's early yet for spring;
There 's that long town of white to cross
Before the blackbirds sing.

It can't be dying, — it 's too rouge, —
The dead shall go in white.
So sunset shuts my question down
With clasps of chrysolite.