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SNOWFLAKES by HOMER HIGH CALHOUN

First Line: OUT OF THE GRAY-DRAPED SKIES THEY COME
Last Line: THEY SWIRL A PILLOW FOR ITS HEAD.
Subject(s): SNOW;

Out of the gray-draped skies they come,
Softly and silently on tip-toe --
Descending slowly lest a sound awake
Some fairy dream.

They put the yawning dark to bed
And tuck around the feet of night
A quilt of white, and soundlessly
They swirl a pillow for its head.



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