Again I look’d at the snow-fall,

And thought of the leaden sky

That arch’d o’er our first great sorrow,

When that mound was heap’d so high.

I remember’d the gradual patience

That fell from that cloud like snow,

Flake by flake, healing and hiding

The scar of our deep-plung’d woe.

And again to the child I whisper’d,

“The snow that husheth all,