Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 · Boston, Houghton, Osgood and company · leaf 237
bronze against the marble breast ! Her task is done ; no voice divine Has crowned her deeds with saintly fame. No eye can see the aureole shine That rings her brow with heavenly flame. Yet what has holy page more sweet, Or what had womans love more fair.When Mary clasped her Saviours feet With… … THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the nightHad been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlockWore ermine too dear for an earl. And the poorest twig on the elm-treeWas ridged inch deep with pearl. MISGELLANE0TJ8. 221…
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