New poems and variant readings/It blows a snowing gale

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New poems and variant readings (1918)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
It blows a snowing gale
1920835New poems and variant readings — It blows a snowing gale1918Robert Louis Stevenson

IT BLOWS A SNOWING GALE

It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year;
The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier.
The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro,
A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane.
Autumn leaves and rain,
The passion of the gale.