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<h4 id="id00052" style="margin-top: 2em">THAW</h4>
<h4 id="id00009" style="margin-top: 2em">BY EDWARD THOMAS</h4>
<p id="id00053">OVER the land freckled with snow half-thawed<br/>
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed<br/>
And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flower of grass,<br/>
What we below could not see, Winter pass.<br/></p>
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