“When men were all asleep the snow came flying,
In large white flakes falling on the city brown,
Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying,
Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town.”
London Snow http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2931.html, l. 1-4 (1890).
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"Christmas legend" [Weinachtslegende] (1923), Berliner Börsen-Courier (25 December 1924); trans. in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 99
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)

“where the Gauls stealthily, at the time of night when sleep falls on men, attacked the high citadel and of a sudden stained with blood walls and watchers.”
Qua Galli furtim noctu summa arcis adorti
moenia concubia vigilesque repente cruentant.
As quoted by Macrobius in Saturnalia, Book I, Chapter IV (tr. J. Elliott)

“When the snow fall
and the white winds blow,
the lone wolf dies
but the pack survives.”

“I believe that all men, black, brown, and white, are brothers.”
Source: Star Maker (1937), Chapter I: The Earth; 2. Earth Among the Stars (p. 13)

“It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.”
Source: Summer Knight