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When the Year grows OldEdna St. Vincent MillayI cannot but remember When the year grows old — October — November — How she disliked the cold!She used to watch the swallows Go down across the sky, And turn from the window With a little sharp sigh.And often when the brown leaves Were brittle on the ground, And the wind in the chimney Made a melancholy sound,She had a look about her That I wish I could forget — The look of a scared thing Sitting in a net!Oh, beautiful at nightfall The soft spitting snow! And beautiful the bare boughs Rubbing to and fro!But the roaring of the fire, And the warmth of fur, And the boiling of the kettle Were beautiful to her!I cannot but remember When the year grows old — October — November — How she disliked the cold!

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