Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SNOW-SPELL, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER


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SNOW-SPELL, by                    
First Line: The world was wrapped in a robe of ravishing white
Last Line: Lay white and beautiful beneath the snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson
Subject(s): Hate; Sleep; Snow; War


The world was wrapped in a robe of ravishing white --
The whiteness that sings from the peace of impeccable snow;
The houses, the trees, the river, the far mountain-height,
Lay still as a setting etched in the lunar glow.

The world, as it slept, seemed purged of pride and of pain --
Seemed covered with a blanket of rest by an unseen Hand --
The Hand of Love, whose white touch, leaving no stain,
Had brought the healing of sleep to a sleepless land;

Had blotted out, too, the blackness patterned of hate, --
Of war and of greed, injustice, and want, and woe;
The world for one brief moment, inviolate,
Lay white and beautiful beneath the snow.





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