Soft Snow. Gnomic Verses. William Blake. 1908. The Poetical Works

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William Blake (1757–1827). The Poetical Works. 1908.

Gnomic Verses

Soft Snow


IX I WALKÈD abroad on a snowy day:
I ask’d the soft Snow with me to play:
She play’d and she melted in all her prime;
And the Winter call’d it a dreadful crime. 1

Note 1. IX 4 Oh, that sweet love should be thought a crime! MS. 1st rdg. del. Cp. the introductory lines to ‘A Little Girl Lost’ in the Songs of Experience. [back]

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