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The snow had fallen many nights and days	A
The sky was come upon the earth at last	B
Sifting thinly down as endlessly	C
As though within the system of blind planets	D
Something had been forgot or overdriven	E
The dawn now seemed neglected in the grey	F
Where mountains were unbuilt and shadowless trees	G
Rootlessly paused or hung upon the air	H
There was no wind but now and then a sigh	I
Crossed that dry falling dust and rifted it	J
Through crevices of slate and door and casement	J
Perhaps the new moon's time was even past	J
Outside the first white twilights were too void	J
Until a sheep called once as to a lamb	K
And tenderness crept everywhere from it	J
But now the flock must have strayed far away	F
The lights across the valley must be veiled	J
The smoke lost in the greyness or the dusk	L
For more than three days now the snow had thatched	J
That cow house roof where it had ever melted	J
With yellow stains from the beasts' breath inside	J
But yet a dog howled there though not quite lately	C
Someone passed down the valley swift and singing	M
Yes with locks spreaded like a son of morning	M
But if he seemed too tall to be a man	E
It was that men had been so long unseen	E
Or shapes loom larger through a moving snow	E
And he was gone and food had not been given him	N
When snow slid from an overweighted leaf	O
Shaking the tree it might have been a bird	J
Slipping in sleep or shelter whirring wings	P
Yet never bird fell out save once a dead one	E
And in two days the snow had covered it	J
The dog had howled again or thus it seemed	J
Until a lean fox passed and cried no more	Q
All was so safe indoors where life went on	E
Glad of the close enfolding snow O glad	J
To be so safe and secret at its heart	J
Watching the strangeness of familiar things	P
They knew not what dim hours went on went by	I
For while they slept the clock stopt newly wound	J
As the cold hardened Once they watched the road	J
Thinking to be remembered Once they doubted	J
If they had kept the sequence of the days	A
Because they heard not any sound of bells	R
A butterfly that hid until the Spring	M
Under a ceiling's shadow dropt was dead	J
The coldness seemed more nigh the coldness deepened	J
As a sound deepens into silences	S
It was of earth and came not by the air	H
The earth was cooling and drew down the sky	I
The air was crumbling There was no more sky	I
Rails of a broken bed charred in the grate	J
And when he touched the bars he thought the sting	M
Came from their heat he could not feel such cold	J
She said 'O do not sleep	T
Heart heart of mine keep near me No no sleep	T
I will not lift his fallen quiet eyelids	U
Although I know he would awaken then	E
He closed them thus but now of his own will	V
He can stay with me while I do not lift them '	W

Gordon Bottomley

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