A Winter Night  24438

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    When biting Boreas, fell and doure,
    Sharp shivers thro' the leafless bow'r;
    When Phoebus gies a short-liv'd glow'r,
                   Far south the lift,
    Dim-dark'ning thro' the flaky show'r,
                   Or whirling drift.
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  • King Lear • Epigraph to Burns's poem is Lear's lines from 3.4 "Poor naked wretches wheresoe'er you are ... From seasons such as these?"
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