"Love's first kisses are the snow-drops,
Ringing here like fairy bells;
Let thy heart bend low and listen
To the tale their music tells."
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"Sir Knight, wouldst know thy lady's name?
These pin-pricks tell from whence I came."
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"Love wove the snow-flakes in a flower
To deck his lady's secret bower;
With them my love I now confess—
Thy true knight's name I'd have thee guess."
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"Farewell to winter! Now farewell—
We snow-bells rang his dying knell,
And had you but a fine, fine ear,
That could our fairy chiming hear,
Then should you know which friend so true
Has sent this vinter-gjaek to you:
For ever softly do we sing
The name of him whose love we bring."
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