“The snow had begun in the gloaming,
And busily all the night
Had been heaping field and highway
With a silence deep and white.”

—  James Russell Lowell

The First Snowfall http://www.bartleby.com/248/351.html, st. 1 (1849)

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American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819–1891

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