As I have been once a citizen there, And learned December's laws, a shivering boy, And know how thick and thin the winter's wear Must make us to survive its frigid joy, And since the south has put me in a state So different I must master by new study The dulling sun, pricking me on to mate My other life with lounging ecstasy, I would we were together in-between, That north and south, being met, might teach the laws To storm this distant, temperate mean, Before all summer cools, or all winter thaws, Yet I know you could be here, or I there, Or both in the middle place, and neither care.