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Mistress, there are portents abroad of magic and might,
And things that are yet to be done. Open the door!
- -- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (b. 1893), U.S. poet. "On a Night of Snow" (l. 13–14)... The Oxford Book of Children’s Verse in America Donald Hall, ed. (1985) Oxford University Press.