They teased out the seed that the cold kept asleep, - All the coils, loops and whorls. They trellised the sun; they plotted for more than themselves. (Theodore Roethke)

They teased out the seed that the cold kept asleep, - All the coils, loops and whorls. They trellised the sun; they plotted for more than themselves.

Theodore Roethke

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