TO A SNOWFLAKE
by: Francis Thompson
- HAT heart could have thought you?--
- Pas our devisal
- (O filigree petal!)
- Fashioned so purely,
- Fragilely, surely,
- From what Paradisal
- Imagineless metal,
- Too costly for cost?
- Who hammered you, wrought you,
- From argentine vapour?--
- "God was my shaper.
- Passing surmisal,
- He hammered, he wrought me,
- From curled silver vapour,
- To lust of His mind:--
- Thou couldst not have thought me!
- So purely, so palely,
- Tinily, surely,
- Mightily, frailly,
- Insculped and embossed,
- With His hammer of wind,
- And His graver of frost."
'To a Snowflake' is reprinted from
An Anthology of Modern Verse. Ed. A. Methuen. London:
Methuen & Co., 1921. |
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