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Alfred Kreymborg, ed.  Others for 1919.  1920.
 
Margrethe
By William Saphier
 
YOU are an ice covered twig
with a quiet, smiling sap.
The spring winds of life
have tested your steel-blade soul
and the harsh breath of men        5
covered you with a frigid shell.
But under the transparent ice
I have seen your warm hand
ready to tear the shell
and grasp the love-sun’s heat,        10
and your cool morning eyes
look clear and calm into the day.
 
 
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