<h2><SPAN name="SNOWFLAKES" id="SNOWFLAKES"></SPAN>SNOWFLAKES.</h2>
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<br/>Out of the bosom of the air,
<br/>Out of the cloud folds of its garments shaken,
<br/>Over the woodlands brown and bare,
<br/>Over the harvest fields forsaken,
<br/>Silent, and soft, and slow,
<br/>Descends the snow.
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<br/>Even as our cloudy fancies take
<br/>Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
<br/>Even as the troubled heart doth make
<br/>In the white countenance confession,
<br/>The troubled sky reveals
<br/>The grief it feels.
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<br/>This is the poem of the air,
<br/>Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
<br/>This is the secret of despair,
<br/>Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
<br/>Now whispered and revealed
<br/>To wood and field.
<br/>—<i>Longfellow.</i>
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<td class="xx-smaller ac w30">From col. Chi. Acad. Sciences.<br/>
CHICAGO COLORTYPE CO., CHIC. & NEW YORK.</td>
<td class="x-smaller ac w40">AMERICAN GOLDEN-EYE.<br/>
⅓Life-size.</td>
<td class="xx-smaller ac w30">Copyright by<br/>
Nature Study Pub. Co., 1898, Chicago.</td>
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