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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Richard KendallMunkittrick

1113 Ghosts

OUT in the misty moonlight

The first snowflakes I see,

As they frolic among the leafless

Limbs of the apple-tree.

Faintly they seem to whisper,

As round the boughs they wing:

“We are the ghosts of the blossoms

That died in the early spring.”