| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Fire of Snow | | By Clark Ashton Smith |
| | | PALE fire of snow had lit the dusk for me: | |
| Astray with mind half-consciously intent, | |
| I had not thought the wood so imminent. | |
| Those lofty trees upstanding wearily, | |
| Darker than sleep, more mute with mystery | 5 |
| Than far-off death, where questing dreams are spent | |
| With stars and winds, appeared they as I went | |
| Therein, and paused in old expectancy. | |
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| Pale fire of snow had lit the dusk for me; | |
| But the black stillness held where once the wind | 10 |
| Had parted boughs in music, that the gleam | |
| Of stars might enter. All was strangely blind, | |
| More dull than midnight ’neath the middle sea; | |
| Filled with the silence of a perished dream | | | | |
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