| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| The Snow Storm |
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| 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. | 5 |
| 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 | 10 |
| 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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