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First Line: The snow dies, that was cold as coral
Last Line: Their's is no dance that she must learn.


THE snow dies, that was cold as coral,
Or a fairy-story's moral,

And birds put forth their song's soft flowers
In the thickets and the bowers.

Salome walks the lands . . . the quaint
Flowers crisp as snow, and youthful, feint

To watch from Heaven's palaces,
With footsteps soft as calices

The angels come as pages, show
Salome how to touch the low

Lute-notes and dance the sarabande,
Leading the Princess by the hand,

Until Salome's nurse appears,
Harsh as the snow; with shivering fears

The angels go again, discern
Their's is no dance that she must learn.





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