SELECT POETRY.
*~ " THE FIRST SNOWBALL. - ! By J. R. Lowell. Jlp spoke our own little Mabel, Saying, " Father, who makes it snow ?' And t told of the good All-Father Who cares for us here below. Again I looked afc the snow-fe.ll, And I thought of the leaden sky That arched o'er our first great sorrow, When that mould was heaped so high." I remember the gradual patience That fell from the cloud like suow, Flake by flake, healing and hiding The scar of our deep-plunged woe. ■•>'.■ • < > • . i i : t i And again to the child I whispered., "The snow that husheth all, ' Darling, the merciful Father Alone'can mate it fall.'' Then, with eyes that saw not, I kissed her ; And she, kissing back, could not know, That my kiss was given to her sister. Folded close under deepening snow.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 93, 20 November 1869, Page 6
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