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| Claude Monet, Autumn Effect at Argenteuil, oil on canvas, 1873, The Courtauld Gallery, London, UK |
Amongst All Things I Cherish You Most
Amongst
all things I cherish you most:
silent,
deserted tracks,
paths
winding steeply up
to
the hazy tops, murmurs of footsteps
muffled
by silent slopes,
ascensions
to sylvan hermitages.
When
the first snow
shuts
all man within their weary
dwellings,
then even the timid fox
sticks
its head out of the woods,
sniffing
with its pointed nose the air
in
the scant November dusk.
Similarly
a vagrant finds some peace
and
no longer despairs in his wandering,
when
the blackening earth closes the corolla
of
the horizon, and like ancient weeping,
the
oblivious, sooty sky
is a
mute blanket, unutterable.
(The Appalachians, November
2013)
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