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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
QUATRAINS: A WINTER DREAM, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poet's Biography
First Line: The host of flakes that float thro' leafless trees
Last Line: Come back to woo the roses that are dead.
Subject(s): Winter
First Line: The host of flakes that float thro' leafless trees
Last Line: Come back to woo the roses that are dead.
Subject(s): Winter
THE host of flakes that float thro' leafless trees
When pale December reigns in Autumn's stead,
Are but the pallid ghosts of myriad bees,
Come back to woo the roses that are dead.
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