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themselves with the golden sequins, the 

 bronze medals, the silver buckles, the 

 copper spangles, the elfin plumes, the 

 powdered amber, the burnt topazes, the 

 negle<5led pearls, the smoked ame- 

 thysts, the calcined garnets, all the 

 dead but still dazzling jewellery which 

 the North Wind heaps up in the hollows 

 of ravines and footpaths ; but it insists 

 that they shall remain faithful to their 

 old masters and wear the livery of the 

 drab and weary months that give them 

 birth. It does not permit them to be- 

 tray those masters and to don the 

 princely, changing dresses of the spring 

 and the dawn ; and if, sometimes, it suf- 

 fers a pink, this is only on condition that 

 it be borrowed from the cold lips, the 

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