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WHITE FIELDS by JAMES STEPHENS

First Line: IN THE WINTER TIME WE GO
Last Line: WHERE IT IS THE CHILDREN GO.
Subject(s): SNOW; WINTER;
(1)

In the winter time we go
Walking in the fields of snow;

Where there is no grass at all;
Where the top of every wall,

Every fence, and every tree,
Is as white as white can be.

(2)

Pointing out the way we came,
-- Every one of them the same --

All across the fields there be
Prints in silver filigree;

And our motners always know,
By the footprints in the snow,

Where it is the children go.



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