Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 89
ith a silence deep and white. beauty of the summer woods, shows them to us uvtheir wintry whiteness : But winter has yet brighter scenes,—he boastsSplendors beyond what gorgeous summer knows;Or autumn with his many fruits, and woodsAll flushed with many hues. Come when the rainsHave glazed the… … THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl; And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl. From sheds new-roofed with CarraraCame chanticleers muffled crow;The stiff rails were softened to swans-down,And still fluttered down the snow.…
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