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<v Speaker 1>Section twenty of Birds and All Nature, Volume seven, number two,

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<v Speaker 1>February nineteen hundred, Recorded for Librivaux dot Org by Tabarish

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<v Speaker 1>February February Fortnight's too briefest of the months? Are you

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<v Speaker 1>of the winter's children? Last? Why do you go by

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<v Speaker 1>so fast? Is it not a little strange? Once in

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<v Speaker 1>four years you should change that the sun should shine

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<v Speaker 1>and give you another day to live. Maybe this has

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<v Speaker 1>only done since you are the smallest one. So I

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<v Speaker 1>make the shortest rhyme for you as befits your time.

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<v Speaker 1>You're the baby of the year, and to me you're

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<v Speaker 1>very dear, just because you bring the line. Will you

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<v Speaker 1>be my valentine? Frank Dempster Sherman. The snow had begun,

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<v Speaker 1>and the gloaming and busily all the night had been heaping,

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<v Speaker 1>filled and highway, with the silence deep and white, Every

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<v Speaker 1>pine and fir and hemlock bore a mind to deer

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<v Speaker 1>for an earl, and the poorest twig on the elm

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<v Speaker 1>tree was ridged inch deep with pearl from sheds. New

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<v Speaker 1>roofed with carrara came shantically as muffled crow. The stiff

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<v Speaker 1>rails were softened to swan's down and still fluttered down

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<v Speaker 1>the snow Lowell end of Section twenty. This recording is

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<v Speaker 1>in the public domain.