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Winter Clashes With Spring
Tyrant winter with his cruel
claws and weapons of ice anc frost
to his autocratic reign clings
and yet come the first
fragile courageous
witnesses of spring..
The crocuses with no coats
in the freezing cold bravely
stand.
Winter does violence to
spring, who responds
with no attack, merely
shining more light.
Soon one by one
the fruit trees witness
with their blossoms.
The trees unfurl their leafly
jade flags until finally
all stand up and say
"I believe in spring."
