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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN A SNOW STORM, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poet's Biography
First Line: The evanescent wonder of the snow
Last Line: For out of death comes life; -- the twain are one!
Subject(s): Death; Life; Snow; Dead, The
First Line: The evanescent wonder of the snow
Last Line: For out of death comes life; -- the twain are one!
Subject(s): Death; Life; Snow; Dead, The
THE evanescent wonder of the snow
Is round about us, and as in a cloud, --
A vestiture inviolate, -- we walk.
Earth seems bereft of song and shorn of sun,
A cloistral world. Even the lyric throb
Of the rapt brook is like a heart-beat faint.
The wood, white architrave on architrave,
Is as a temple where the lips of prayer
Tremble upon the verge of utterance.
Hush! -- in the soul of this great gulf of sleep,
This void abysmal, may we not divine
The Inscrutable Presence, clothed about with dreams,
The Immaculate Vision that is death yet life,
For out of death comes life; -- the twain are one!
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