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A robin said: The Spring will never come, / And I shall never care to build again. / A Rosebush said: These frosts are wearisome, / My sap will never stir for sun or rain. / The half Moon said: These nights are fogged and slow, / I neither care to wax nor care to wane. / The Ocean said: I thirst from long ago, / Because earth's rivers cannot fill the main. / When springtime came, red Robin built a nest, / And trilled a lover's song in sheer delight. / Gray hoarfrost vanished, and the Rose with might / Clothed her in leaves and buds of crimson core. / The dim Moon brightened. Ocean sunned his crest, / Dimpled his blue, -- yet thirsted evermore.