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New Series No. 16 - 2000


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Long Winter

Came like the
Star of Bethlehem.
To keep warm we burned
Telegraph-poles. O
Horror / all the
Snarling pumpkins.

Prussian files
Called up my in-
Come for
Copies.

And yet we
Had a great
Time / as if at a
Chameleon-wedding.


Translated by W. D. Jackson

page(s) 75


 




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