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Winter clouds hover low

Shaking hands with the mist

One gray alliance (of)

Nature's mystic charm

Over the home in the woods

Silence has landed

Poetry of the wretches

So pale and cold

Freezing atmospheric view

Over ice-covered lake

The trees are struggling hard

To carry all the snow

Over the house in the woods

Silence has landed

Poetry of the wretches

So pale and cold

White, towering icicles

Formed by the rising steam

A warm reminder

From gaps in the soil