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The Snow-Shower.
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All, dropping swiftly or settling slow,Meet, and are still in the depths below;Flake after flakeDissolved in the dark and silent lake.
Here delicate snow-stars, out of the cloud, Come floating downward in airy play,Like spangles dropped from the glistening crowd That whiten by night the milky way;There broader and burlier masses fall;The sullen water buries them all—Flake after flake—All drowned in the dark and silent lake.
And some, as on tender wings they glide From their chilly birth-cloud, dim and gray,Are joined in their fall, and, side by side, Come clinging along their unsteady way;
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