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Go to sleep, lilies, the time has come;
Your custos, the opportunistic sun,
Has boarded its tramp-train, heading south,
And won't be back till winter winds
Have thoroughly desiccated your stalks.
Wait until after the peppering sleets
And icewater rains have given way
To tender zephyrs and balmy skies;
Then you may stretch your shoots again.