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This poem is taken from PN Review 36, Volume 10 Number 4, March - April 1984.

Dragons in the Snow Jeremy Hooker
Thaw to the hedgerows
left white crosses on the hill,
  the first thrush sang.

Now a buzzard cries, confirming
  silence under all.

The few bare trees are darker
for the fall that covers
  boundaries,
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