Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EDELWEISS, by WARREN PEASE


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EDELWEISS, by                    
First Line: Child of the snowdrift and the storm!
Last Line: Is baby madeleine.
Subject(s): Alps; Babies; Children; Edelweiss; Mountains; Infants; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CHILD of the snowdrift and the storm!
In lands beyond the sea,
Type of the gentle and the pure,
My tribute is to thee.

By mountain crag and glacier's edge,
Thy presence seems to bring
To those who toil along the steeps
The promise of the spring.

Thus, too, thou camest, little one,
Amid the winter's gloom,
And then, beyond, the promise dwelt,
Of bud and leaf and bloom.

Fair as the blossom of the Alps,
By weary pilgrims seen,
Sweeter than all the flowers that blow,
Is baby Madeleine.





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