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Snow Day
Earth slumbers. And I walk amid her dream.
The old trees smile, the snow-white hand has lain
Her silvery jewels along their boughs agleam,
And icy gems hang down along each pane
Of glittered glass. No snow falls from the skies
But wintry winds come stirring it around
And with a whistle spur it from the ground.
And there's the river, sheeted up in ice.
But underneath its ice that stream still flows
As earth still lives beneath her dream of snows.
And as the spring must melt the ice away
To flood the stream, so too enslumbered earth
Must wake to greet the radiant spring's rebirth,
As I just woke to greet the dawning day.
The old trees smile, the snow-white hand has lain
Her silvery jewels along their boughs agleam,
And icy gems hang down along each pane
Of glittered glass. No snow falls from the skies
But wintry winds come stirring it around
And with a whistle spur it from the ground.
And there's the river, sheeted up in ice.
But underneath its ice that stream still flows
As earth still lives beneath her dream of snows.
And as the spring must melt the ice away
To flood the stream, so too enslumbered earth
Must wake to greet the radiant spring's rebirth,
As I just woke to greet the dawning day.
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Snow Day
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