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First Line: Fading slow
Last Line: Rose-roots that stir!


FADING slow,
And furred, is the snow
As the almond's sweet husk,
And smelling like musk.
The snow amygdaline
Under the eglantine
Where bristling stars shine
Like a gilt porcupine --
The snow confesses
The little Princesses
On their small chioppines
Dance under the orpines.
See the casuistries
Of their slant flutt'ring eyes --
Gilt as the zodiac
(Dancing herodiac).
Only the snow slides
Like gilded myrrh
From the rose-branches -- hides
Rose-roots that stir!





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