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It came into her mind, seeing how the snow
Was gone, and the brown grass exposed again, / And clothes-pins, and an apron-long ago, / In some white storm that sifted through the pane
And sent her forth reluctantly at last
To gather in, before the line gave way, / Garments, board-stiff, that galloped on the blast
Clashing like angel armies in a fray, / An apron long ago in such a night
Blown down and buried in the deepening drift, / To lie till April thawed it back to sight, / Forgotten, quaint and novel as a gift-
It struck her, as she pulled and pried and tore, / That here was spring, and the whole year to be lived through once more.