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 Anxiety by David Herbert Lawrence 
						The hoar-frost crumbles in the sun, The crisping steam of a train
 Melts in the air, while two black birds
 Sweep past the window again.
 
 Along the vacant road, a red
 Bicycle approaches; I wait
 In a thaw of anxiety, for the boy
 To leap down at our gate.
 
 He has passed us by; but is it
 Relief that starts in my breast?
 Or a deeper bruise of knowing that still
 She has no rest.
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