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Snowflakes

Snowflakes

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SNOWFLAKES

BY
ESTHER NELSON KARN.

PHILADELPHIA:
PRESS OF GEO. F. LASHER.
1900.

COPYRIGHTED BY
ESTHER NELSON KARN.
1900.

TO MY HUSBAND,
S. A. KARN,

WHOSE KIND ENCOURAGEMENT HAS ENABLED
ME TO WRITE THIS LITTLE BOOK, THE
SAME IS LOVINGLY INSCRIBED.

The Author.


Table of Contents

DANCE OF THE SNOWFLAKES.
AN OCTOBER DAY.
WELCOME, SWEET MAY.
LAKESIDE.
AUTUMN.
TO A WATER-LILY.
THE CYCLONE.
SUNSET ON THE LAKE.
TO MY WHEEL.
DESPONDENCY.
AN OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN.
DANCE OF THE RIPPLES.
THE PESSIMIST.
THE FIRST EASTER DAWN.
INDIA.
WEARY.
TO A VIOLET.
GOLDEN DAYS.
BABY MINE.
LULLABY.
A DAY IN JUNE.
CHRISTMAS ON THE FARM.
MY LITTLE BROWN-EYED SWEETHEART.
I KNOW TWO EYES.
CUPID'S MISTAKE.
DEWEY'S VICTORY.
BATTLE OF SANTIAGO BAY.
THE OLD MAN'S STORY.
TO MY DOG.
SOMEBODY.
THE HERO OF EVERY-DAY LIFE.
THE CHILD'S INQUIRY.
TO THE OLD TOWN CLOCK.
AFTERWHILE, SOMEWHERE.


DANCE OF THE SNOWFLAKES.

"Let's dance to the brown old earth to-night!"
Cried one little flake of snow;
"The autumn days have all passed by,—
I'm tired of my home here in the sky."
So they all agreed to go.
They dressed themselves in a misty film
Of purest pearly white;
Their feet were clad in velvet down,
As soft and white as the filmy gown
They wore to the dance that night.
Wrapped 'round with a drape of raveled gauze
Were these little fays so fair.
When out from a cloud a pale star beamed,


Bright diamonds sparkled, laughed, and gleamed
In their fleecy, tangled hair.
All ready, so pretty a crowd were they
That naught could their charms enhance;
Then softly and quickly they sped away,
For the whisp'ring wind

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