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There comes a time / After white months of ice -- / Slow months of ice -- long months of ice -- / There comes a time when the still floods below / Rise, lift, and overflow -- / Fast, far they go.
Miss Orella sat in her low armless rocker, lifting perplexed, patient eyes to look up at Dr. Bellair.