“The clear, sweet singer with the crown of snow
Not whiter than the thoughts that housed below.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Epistle to George William Curtis (1874)
“Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow,
Emblem right meet of decency does yield.”
Stanza 6
The Schoolmistress (1737-48)
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Context: The direction is clear, and the first step is to throw your weight around on matters of right and wrong in land-use. Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays. That philosophy is dead in human relations, and its funeral in land-relations is overdue.
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“The yielding marble of her snowy breast.”
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On a Lady passing through a Crowd of People; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
