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Or if the secret ministry of frost
Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
Quietly shining to the quiet moon.
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"Frost at Midnight", l. 72 (1798).

 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The frost performs its secret ministry,
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When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk.

 

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