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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SNOW ON THE TREES, by ANNA O. SMITH
First Line: We wake to see a world the night has made
Last Line: It seems the only scoffer is the wind!
Subject(s): Winter
First Line: We wake to see a world the night has made
Last Line: It seems the only scoffer is the wind!
Subject(s): Winter
We wake to see a world the night has made --
In black and white arrayed is all the earth;
How well the black limned trees show contrast's worth
Since cotton snow on every branch was laid.
Of other colors nature asks no aid,
And yet of beauty rare there is no dearth,
A beauty such as would rebuke all mirth
And show us life in solemn light and shade.
A sacred feeling falls upon the scene;
The crow, in silence, comes on sable wing,
When thus is winter's scale of colors thinned
To black and white. And here with matching mien
Are chickadees, too awed by snow to sing --
It seems the only scoffer is the wind!
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