...trying to be snow, but mostly failing. Slick walks melting down to bare pavement, but otherwise dismal outdoors.

The Socratic method can be defined as cooperative argumentative dialog. And that leads me to this:

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Socratic
H. D.

"They cut it in squares,
sometimes it comes
in little jars"

"O—?"

"Under the trees—"

"Where?"

"By his sheep-pen."

"Whose?"

"The man
who brings eggs:
he put it
in a basket with moss."

"What?"

"Why,
the little jar."

"What for?"

Why,
to carry it over—"

"Over where?"

"The field to Io's house."

"Then?"

"Her mother took it out
of the moss,
and opened it—"

"What?"

"The little jar."

"And then?"

"We each had some."

"What?"

"Why the thing
in the little jar
they got
from the straw huts."

"What huts?"

"Why,
the little huts
under the apple-trees
where they live—"

"Who live?"

"Why,
the bees."