the natural forces imaged in the ice storm.] Often you must have seen them Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning after a rain.

冰的自然作用作对比],下过一场冬雨，第二天，太阳出来,你准会看到白桦上结满了冰。

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But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay As ice-storms do.

可是“荡“一下不会叫它们一躬到底,再也起不来，这可是冰干的事。

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