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The first soft snowflakes hovering down the night	A
From one white cloud that hurries beneath the stars	B
Whispering over the black unfrozen pool	C
Silently falling on withered leaves	D
Eddying slowly among bare boughs of trees	E
The music you are to me is as ghostly as these	E
Softly falling softly passing	F
Wandering slowly on dreamless air	G
The first soft snowflakes slanting down this night	A
Melt on the lifted palms of your hands	H
Or in the fragrant darkness of your hair	G
One of them finds your lip and you quietly laugh	I
A laught that means to say	J
'This was the kiss you gave me yesterday	J
Or the ghost of it ah yes the ghost of it	K
For the ghost of it is all we have to day '	L
The first slow snowflakes pass	M
Leaving a sprinkled whiteness on leaves and grass	M
The cloud whirls ghostlike against the cold bright stars	B
Over the long black boughs that seem to reach	N
Forlornly after it	K
And now it is gone and suddenly we seem	O
To walk in silence where before we walked in speech	N
But the silence itself is exquisite	P
Like a pause in music ghostly with overtones	Q
And silent we seem to hear	R
The echoes of words we spoke and heard last year	S
Clearly our footsteps sound on the moistened stones	Q
Clearly the lamplit hill street gleams before us	T
And silently we climb	U
Climbing our tragic destiny together	V
From lamp to lamp up the bright street of time	U
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II	-
You sit beneath the lamp and talk to me	W
With dark hair somehow turned to fire	V
Your white hands lie in your lap or touch your lips	X
And your talk like music weaving intricately	W
Plays upon me It is a magic of white	A
Touching and changing all familiar things	Y
It flows in the windy night	A
It quietly opens secret doors it sings	Y
It returns upon itself repeats denies	Z
Or takes sweet pleasure in silence And all the while	A2
You sit beneath the lamp and smile	A2
Or turn away your eyes	Z
We remember you seem to say	J
Choosing strange words to say it in another way	J
How slowly and how inevitably we change	B2
How what was then familiar now grows strange	B2
White valleys fall between us	T
Your words become a wind and heavily blow	C2
We seem to be crying across a chasm of snow	C2
Trying to hear the half remembered words	D2
Trying to guess what we no longer know	C2
Yes life changes we are never the same	E2
Your eyes grow dark with a tiny flame	E2
You say the words and wait	F2
And a sudden terror seizes me for I fear	S
That you have divined the things that I have forgotten	G2
Things that still shine before you white and clear	S
Yes it is strange You sigh your talk flows on	H2
You touch your hair with your hands and sigh	I2
And suddenly then it seems to me that this word	J2
This word so quietly said was a terrible cry	I2
And I am confused I desire to touch your hand	K2
But again white chasms open the night flows chill	L2
And something freezes within me and I am still	L2
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III	-
The snowflakes tick the frosted windowpane	M2
The night is mad with the senseless dance of flakes	N2
The coal fire sinks and shakes	N2
And I wait by the window and look along the street	O2
To where in the snow beneath a lamp	P2
A man and a woman stand	K2
He is leaning close to her face he takes her hand	K2
He pleads with her she tries to turn away	J
What is it he leans to say	J
What is the savage music he plays upon her	V
What chords profound with memories	E
He takes her in his arms and she is his	Q2
She lifts her face in the sombre light	A
And together slowly they walk away	J
Whirled about by the mad dance of snow	C2
Down the white silent street from lamp to lamp they go	C2
Into the immortal night	A
Where have they gone Where will the white streets lead them	R2
To what tempestuous or ignoble end	S2
To what faint peace or dazzling pain	M2
The snowflakes whirl and madden my brain	M2
They whirl in patterns before my eyes	Z
And I see them at last in a small and sombre room	T2
In the yellow lamplight I see them rise	Z
She smiles and lifts white hands to touch her hair	G
And he waits wearily in the eternal chair	G
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IV	I2
I would like to touch this snow with the wind of a dream	O
With a sudden warmth of music and turn it all	U2
To petals of roses Why is it that I recall	U2
Your two pale hands holding a bowl of roses	Q2
Wide open like lotos flowers floating in water	V
I would like to touch this snow with the wind of a dream	O
To hold the world in my hands and let it fall	U2
We have walked among the hills immortally white	A
Golden by noon and blue by night	A
I would like to touch this snow with the wind of a dream	O
And hear you singing again by a starlight wall	U2
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V	I2
You talk to me what is it that you are saying	F
April April the soft sun falls between	V2
The deep white chasm the gorge of the frozen river	V
Flashes with white and green	V2
And we are walking there by the blue river	V
By the blue river scaled with golden fire	V
Our feet move pace for pace through the tall grasses	W2
And the earth is light with desire	V
Youth youth so sing we for a space	X2
And darkness comes over your face	X2
A great cloud crosses the golden sky	I2
Wind shakes the leaves you fall in the grass and cry	I2
Crying silently hiding your face with your hands	H
Youth youth so sing we for a space	X2
And you are crying I know	C2
Because this day this youth this beauty must go	C2
Go down into the dust	Y2
The golden river is dark with a sudden gust	Y2
The green of the willows is ruffled grey	J
A great cloud crosses the sky	I2
Wind shakes the leaves you fall in the grass and cry	I2
Youth April we clamour to them to stay	J
And a shadow is on us for we know that love must die	I2
And rising then we see white peaks in the distance	Z2
White peaks quiet peace eternity	I2
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VI	I2
Do you remember you who smiled at me	I2
Under this lamp here in this world of snow	C2
Do you remember long ago	C2
What was I going to tell you What was my dream to be	I2
It does not matter for all we need to say	J
To strike our hearts to a bitter chorded music	A3
Is 'do you remember on a certain day '	-
And all the years fall down from us like leaves	D
And all this sinister world is blown away	J
Take my hand and dream of youth once more	B3
Take my arm and let us walk	C3
On the wet flagstones gleaming yellow with lamps	D3
And along the sea furled shore	B3
Or up a certain flight of marble stairs	E3
Resting our hands on the green veined balustrade	I2
And into a room where a low toned waltz is played	I2
And women rise from gilded chairs	E3
Ah this has been a golden day	I2
You lean and say	I2
A day like music of strange rich involutions	I2
Swift and profound and huddled and sweet	I2
The wind of it blows even into this room	T2
There is a hint of forests in this rich gloom	T2
You smile your eyes intensely darken at mine	F3
I feel the music about us heavily beat	I2
Waver and vanish and shine	F3
One white rose with a golden heart	I2
Held in the cup of your hand	I2
To day I muse all things will find solution	G2
The universe is simple to understand	I2
Take my arm and let us drift	I2
Like leaves when the wind is driven for the day soon ends	I2
It is strange how such a day with such a music	A3
And one white rose will make friends more than friends	I2
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VII	I2
White hours like snow white hours like eternal snow	C2
Long white streets jewelled with lights	I2
Our steps are muffled and silent we scarcely know	C2
How swiftly we cross the nights	I2
I would like to touch this snow with the fire of a dream	O
With the mouth of a dream And turn it all	U2
To petals of roses I would like to touch you too	I2
And change you into the chord of music I knew	I2
Can you not change Run back again to April	G3
Laugh out at me from among young lilac leaves	I2
Play with your jewels and sing	F
Feeling the earth beneath you float with spring	F
You talk in an even tone I answer you	I2
And all about us seems to say	I2
Peace peace the hills and streets are cold	I2
You are growing cold	I2
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VIII	I2
Yes we have changed slowly	I2

Conrad Potter Aiken

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