“Cold, delicately as the dark snow,
A fox's nose touches twig, leaf;
Two eyes serve a movement, that now
And again now, and now, and now
Sets neat prints into the snow.”

"The Thought-Fox", line 10
The Hawk in the Rain (1957)

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English poet and children's writer 1930–1998

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