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First Line: Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts
Last Line: That these late mouths should cry open / in a forest of frost, in a dawn of cornflowers
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening




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