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FANCIES.
II. A SNOW-DROP.
Only a tender little thing, So velvet soft and white it is;But March himself is not so strong, With all the great gales that are his.
In vain his whistling storms he calls, In vain the cohorts of his powerRide down the sky on mighty blasts— He cannot crush the little flower.
Its white spear parts the sod, the snows Than that white spear less snowy are,The rains roll off its crest like spray, It lifts again its spotless star.:
Blow, blow, dark March! To meet you here, Thrust upward from the central gloom,The stellar force of the old earth Pulses to life in this slight bloom.
