"Endure Hardness"
A cold wind stirs the blackthorn
To burgeon and to blow.
Besprinkling half-green hedges
With flakes and sprays of snow.
Thro' coldness and thro' keenness,
Dear hearts, take comfort so.
Somewhere or other doubtless
These make the blackthorn blow."
Christina Rossetti
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