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# Winter Night
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/winter-night/
- Published: 2022-07-25T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-07-25T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: "Stay with me", he begged. "Stay, for when you're gone, I shall have to be man again, no longer at home in this magical forest." So she stayed with him, and the snow sparkled with her gentle smile, and the trees lit t...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

"Stay with me", he begged. "Stay, for when you're gone,  
I shall have to be man again, no longer at home in this  
magical forest."  
So she stayed with him, and the snow sparkled with her  
gentle smile, and the trees lit the forest: eerie, cold torches.  
And so he sang of his love for her. And the owl listened.

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