To Waken An Old Lady

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Title:     To Waken An Old Lady
Author: William Carlos Williams [More Titles by Williams]

Old age is
a flight of small
cheeping birds
skimming
bare trees
above a snow glaze.
Gaining and failing
they are buffetted
by a dark wind--
But what?
On harsh weedstalks
the flock has rested,
the snow
is covered with broken
seedhusks
and the wind tempered
by a shrill
piping of plenty.

[The end]
William Carlos Williams's poem: To Waken An Old Lady

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