“But we are gifted, even in November,
Rawest of seasons, with so huge a sense
Of her nakedly worn magnificence
We forget cruelty and past betrayal,
Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.”

—  Robert Graves , book The White Goddess

"The White Goddess," lines 18–22, from Poems and Satires (1951)
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