Birds and All Nature, Vol. V, No 2 February 1899

<h2><SPAN name="SNOWFLAKES" id="SNOWFLAKES"></SPAN>SNOWFLAKES.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">Falling all the night-time,</div> <div class="verse">Falling all the day,</div> <div class="verse">Silent into silence,</div> <div class="verse">From the far-away;</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">Stilly host unnumbered,</div> <div class="verse">All the night and day</div> <div class="verse">Falling, falling, falling,</div> <div class="verse">From the far-away,&mdash;</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">Never came like glory</div> <div class="verse">To the fields and trees,</div> <div class="verse">Never summer blossoms</div> <div class="verse">Thick and white as these.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">To the dear old places</div> <div class="verse">Winging night and day,</div> <div class="verse">Follow, follow, follow,</div> <div class="verse">Fold them soft away;</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">Folding, folding, folding,</div> <div class="verse">Fold the world away,</div> <div class="verse">Souls of flowers drifting</div> <div class="verse">Down the winter day.</div> <div class="verse ar">&mdash;<i>John Vance Cheney.</i></div> </div></div> </div> <hr class="chap" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />