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| Caspar David Friedrich, “Winter Landscape with church,” 1811, oil on canvas, National Gallery, London, UK. |
Snowfall
It snows; the air is swarming with white;
the earth is white; snow upon snow;
the elms groan with a long, tired bellow:
some white falls upon a soft thud.
And the wind gusts ragingly blow
and in the streets whirls the storm of snow;
kids pass by: a babbling of cry;
a mother passes by: a prayer passes by.
Giovanni Pascoli, from the collection Myricae (1891-1911).
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