lament i greeted old man winter his arrival heralded; both baleful and morose with grays and stark nothingness he touched the ground arrested the fecundity and left me desperate and wonton for the green of my youth now lost beneath his frost-covered hands "why?" i lamented "why must we grow old and frail?" winters eyes softened and he looked as if he were a father speaking a great truth to his wayward son "tis natures way, my child of adam" and would say nothing else instead he took me in his arms and together we waited quiet and long for the release of spring to arrive.
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