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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 3. VARIATIONS: 2. SNOW AT SEA, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poet's Biography
First Line: Silently fell / the snow on the waters
Last Line: In the winter evening.
Subject(s): Sea; Snow; Ocean
First Line: Silently fell / the snow on the waters
Last Line: In the winter evening.
Subject(s): Sea; Snow; Ocean
Andante
Silently fell
The snow on the waters
In the grey dusk
Of the winter evening:
Swirling and falling,
Sucked into the oily
Blue-black surface
Of the sea.
We pounded on slowly;
From our bows sheeted
A shuddering mass of heavy foam:
Night closed about us,
But ere we were darkened,
We saw close in
A great gaunt schooner
Beating to southward.
Silently fell
The snow on the waters,
As we pounded north
In the winter evening.
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