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Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889

The Snowbird

By Dora Read Goodale (1866–1953)

WHEN the leaves are shed,

And the branches bare,

When the snows are deep,

And the flowers asleep,

And the autumn dead;

And the skies are o’er us bent,

Gray and gloomy, since she went,

And the sifting snow is drifting

Through the air;

Then, ’mid snowdrifts white,

Though the trees are bare,

Comes the snowbird, bold

In the winter’s cold;

Quick and round, and bright,

Light he steps across the snow,

Cares he not for winds that blow,

Though the sifting snow be drifting

Through the air.