{"id":25390,"date":"2023-08-30T21:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T01:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=25390"},"modified":"2023-08-30T11:38:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T15:38:49","slug":"31aug2023-quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/30\/31aug2023-quote-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"31AUG2023 \u2013 Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

The First Snowfall<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The snow had begun in the gloaming,<\/strong><\/p>\n

And busily all the night<\/strong><\/p>\n

Had been heaping field and highway<\/strong><\/p>\n

With a silence deep and white.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every pine and fir and hemlock<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wore ermine too dear for an earl,<\/strong><\/p>\n

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree<\/strong><\/p>\n

Was ridged inch deep with pearl.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

From sheds new-roofed with Carrara<\/strong><\/p>\n

Came Chanticleer’s muffled crow,<\/strong><\/p>\n

The stiff rails were softened to swan’s-down,<\/strong><\/p>\n

And still fluttered down the snow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I stood and watched by the window<\/strong><\/p>\n

The noiseless work of the sky,<\/strong><\/p>\n

And the sudden flurries of snow-birds,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like brown leaves whirling by.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn<\/strong><\/p>\n

Where a little headstone stood;<\/strong><\/p>\n

How the flakes were folding it gently,<\/strong><\/p>\n

As did robins the babes in the wood.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Up spoke our own little Mabel,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saying, ‘Father, who makes it snow?’<\/strong><\/p>\n

And I told of the good All-father<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who cares for us here below.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Again I looked at the snowfall,<\/strong><\/p>\n

And thought of the leaden sky<\/strong><\/p>\n

That arched o’er our first great sorrow,<\/strong><\/p>\n

When that mound was heaped so high.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I remembered the gradual patience<\/strong><\/p>\n

That fell from that cloud like snow,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Flake by flake, healing and hiding<\/strong><\/p>\n

The scar that renewed our woe.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

And again to the child I whispered,<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘The snow that husheth all,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Darling, the merciful Father<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alone can make it fall! ‘<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then, with eyes that saw not, I kissed her;<\/strong><\/p>\n

And she, kissing back, could not know<\/strong><\/p>\n

That my kiss was given to her sister,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Folded close under deepening snow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

James Russell Lowell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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