February 1: The Pasture

[February Feels Like]

I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;

I'll only stop to rake the leaves away

(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):

I sha'n't be gone long.—You come too.

I'm going out to fetch the little calf

That's standing by the mother. It's so young

It totters when she licks it with her tongue.

I sha'n't be gone long.—You come too.

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Robert Frost, North of Boston (1915)

Happy 2026!