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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SNOW-STORM, by AGNES ETHELWYN WETHERALD
First Line: The great soft downy snow-storm like a cloak
Last Line: To give a radiant answer to the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wetherald, Ethelwyn
Subject(s): Nature; Snow
First Line: The great soft downy snow-storm like a cloak
Last Line: To give a radiant answer to the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wetherald, Ethelwyn
Subject(s): Nature; Snow
THE great soft downy snow-storm like a cloak
Descends to wrap the lean world head to feet;
It gives the dead another winding-sheet,
It buries all the roofs until the smoke
Seems like a soul that from its clay has broke.
It broods moon-like upon the Autumn wheat,
And visits all the trees in their retreat
To hood and mantle that poor shivering folk.
With wintry bloom it fills the harshest grooves
In jagged pine-stump fences. Every sound
It hushes to the footstep of a nun.
Sweet Charity! that brightens where it moves
Inducing darkest bits of churlish ground
To give a radiant answer to the sun.
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