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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Carol Rumens

Poem of the week: Snow-Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘Silent, and soft, and slow / Descends the snow’ …A snow covered landscape at Holmesfield in Derbyshire
‘Silent, and soft, and slow / Descends the snow.’ Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

Snow-Flakes

Out of the bosom of the Air,
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
Over the harvest-fields forsaken
Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow.

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