" If winter comes, can spring be far behind?"

──Ode to the west wind 西風頌(text)

"The Pilosophy of Composition"(1846), Edgar Allan Poe. (text)

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New words:

men of letters: 文人。

prophecy:

A prediction.

fra-: 斷斷、破破的。

fragment, frail.

feeble:

Physically weak, especially because you are old or sick.