Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts…

William Carlos Williams
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Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the frozen sand drives it a-rattle against the lidless windows and we may dear sit stroking the cat stroking the cat and smiling sleepily, prrrr. ✨ William Carlos Williams, Macha Louis Rosenthal (1966). The William Carlos Williams Reader, p.109, New Directions Publishing
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