1898 · CLOSE READING
Songs of the Spirit
Songs of the Spirit (1898), PDF p. 65
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A SPRING SNOWSTORM IN
WASTDALE.
ON rocky mountain bare
Of grass, and meadows fair,
Angels their trumpets blow upon the night,
While o’er the shrinking dale
The insatiable gale
Roars with unconquered and impassive might.
Their robes of snow they rend,
And their deep voices blend
With tempest, like that angry Amphitrite,
His hair blown wild and loose
On windy Syracuse,
Lashing the waves with words of wrath, a terror
of bright light.
Here the thick snowflakes fall,
Till mountain in their pall,
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