Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flower of grass, What we below could not see, Winter pass.
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First published in Poems (1917). First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established. [1]
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Edward Thomas (1878–1917).
“Thaw.” First published in Poems (1917).
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