A SNOWFLAKE
Million-needledstar of hoar,Parachuting little kiteSailing by my cottage-door,Flurried, jostled, fairy-light—Whither, whither, whence and whyComest thou of crystalFrom the welkin, hasting byLike a lost epistle?Softly did the snowflake sigh“Read me as I rest awhile!”So I read the whence and why;For the snowflake is a smile,Melting Heaven-dew congealedLest we miss its beauty,Love in miracle revealedOn the wings of duty!
Million-needledstar of hoar,Parachuting little kiteSailing by my cottage-door,Flurried, jostled, fairy-light—Whither, whither, whence and whyComest thou of crystalFrom the welkin, hasting byLike a lost epistle?Softly did the snowflake sigh“Read me as I rest awhile!”So I read the whence and why;For the snowflake is a smile,Melting Heaven-dew congealedLest we miss its beauty,Love in miracle revealedOn the wings of duty!
Million-needledstar of hoar,Parachuting little kiteSailing by my cottage-door,Flurried, jostled, fairy-light—Whither, whither, whence and whyComest thou of crystalFrom the welkin, hasting byLike a lost epistle?
Million-needledstar of hoar,
Parachuting little kite
Sailing by my cottage-door,
Flurried, jostled, fairy-light—
Whither, whither, whence and why
Comest thou of crystal
From the welkin, hasting by
Like a lost epistle?
Softly did the snowflake sigh“Read me as I rest awhile!”So I read the whence and why;For the snowflake is a smile,Melting Heaven-dew congealedLest we miss its beauty,Love in miracle revealedOn the wings of duty!
Softly did the snowflake sigh
“Read me as I rest awhile!”
So I read the whence and why;
For the snowflake is a smile,
Melting Heaven-dew congealed
Lest we miss its beauty,
Love in miracle revealed
On the wings of duty!