“The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.”
Source: The Secret History
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“These be
Three silent things:
The falling snow…the hour
Before the dawn…the mouth of one
Just dead.”
Triad.
Verses (1915)