Snow (Four Seasons of Walter de la Mare) Read online

  To my family, friends and teachers who

  always encouraged me to do what I love

  C.R.

  First published in the UK in 2014 by

  Faber and Faber Limited

  Bloomsbury House,

  74-77 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DA

  This ebook edition first published in 2014

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  Carolina Rabei have been asserted.

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  ISBN 978-0-571-30558-2

  Walter de la Mare

  Illustrated by Carolina Rabei

  No breath of wind,

  No gleam of sun—

  Still the white snow

  Whirls softly down—

  Twig and bough

  And blade and thorn

  All in an icy

  Quiet, forlorn.

  Whispering, rustling,

  Through the air,

  On sill and stone,

  Roof – everywhere,

  It heaps its powdery

  Crystal flakes,

  Of every tree

  A mountain makes;

  Till pale and faint

  At shut of day,

  Stoops from the West

  One wintry ray.

  And, feathered in fire,

  Where ghosts the moon,

  A robin shrills

  His lonely tune.

 

 

  Walter de la Mare, Snow (Four Seasons of Walter de la Mare)

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