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December 2008: Now Close the Windows Print E-mail

Now close the windows and hush all the fields:

If the trees must, let them silently toss;

No bird is singing now, and if there is,

Be it my loss.

It will be long ere the marshes resume,

It will be long ere the earliest bird:

So close the windows and not hear the wind,

But see all wind-stirred.

These excerpts are from “The Poetry of Robert Frost ”, edited by Edward Connery Lathem and published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, Limited.(1866).
For more information about Robert Frost, see: http://www.robertfrost.org/body.html