“But when a snowflake, brave and meek,
Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,
It starts—"How warm and soft the day!"
"'T is summer!" and it melts away.”

—  Mary Mapes Dodge

Snowflakes (1894).

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Children's writer, novelist, poet, editor 1831–1905

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