Is it snow or snowdrops' shimmer <br />Whitens thus the bladed grass, <br />With a faint aërial glimmer,-- <br />Spring or winter, which did pass? <br />For the sky is dim and tender <br />With an evanescent light, <br />And the fading fields are white, <br />White with snow or snowdrops, under <br />The fair firstling stars of night. <br /> <br /> <br />Little robin, softly, cheerly <br />Piping on yon wintry bough, <br />Why have all the fields that pearly <br />Iridescence, knowest thou? <br />Did old Winter, grim and hoary, <br />Aim a parting dart at Spring <br />As she fled on azure wing, <br />Or did she with rainbow glory <br />In his face her snowdrops fling?<br /><br />Mathilde Blind<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/snow-or-snowdrops/
