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SNOW OR SNOWDROPS?
- IS it snow or snowdrops’ shimmer
- Whitens thus the bladed grass,
- With a faint aërial glimmer,—
- Spring or winter, which did pass?
- For the sky is dim and tender
- With the evanescent light,
- And the fading fields are white,
- White with snow or snowdrops, under
- The fair firstling stars of night.
- Little robin, softly, cheerly
- Piping on yon wintry bough,
- Why have all the fields that pearly
- Iridescence, knowest thou?
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- Did old Winter, grim and hoary,
- Aim a parting dart at Spring
- As she fled on azure wing,
- Or did she with rainbow glory
- In his face her snowdrops fling?
