<h2><SPAN name="DECEMBER_SNOW" id="DECEMBER_SNOW"></SPAN>DECEMBER SNOW</h2>
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<span class="i0">The falling snow a stainless veil doth cast<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Upon the relics of the dying year—<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Dead leaves and withered flowers and stubble sere—<br/></span>
<span class="i0">As if it would erase the faded past;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">So on our lives does death descend at last,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Hiding youth’s hopes and manhood’s purpose clear,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">And memories faint, to dreaming age most dear,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Beneath its silence, blank and white and vast.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">The sun shines out, and lo! the meadows lone<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Flash into sudden splendor, strangely bright,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">More fair than summer landscape ever shone;<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Thus, gleaming through the storm clouds, faith’s clear light<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Transforms death’s endless waste of silence white<br/></span>
<span class="i0">To beauty passing all that life has known.<br/></span>
<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_50" id="page_50">{50}</SPAN></span></div>
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