...payable to the order of LITTELL & Co. Single copies of the lavixo AQE, 18 cents. LONDON SNOW. WHEN men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large...Into angles and crevices softly drifting and sailing. All night it fell, and when full inches seven It lay in the depth of its uncompacted lightness, Its...

...Chaucer.* The poem to which I have just referred is entitled London Snow,} and begins thus : " When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large...angles and crevices softly drifting and sailing." The descriptive effect of that is to me most happy and powerful. The lines are plainly lines of five...

...glad that hear ; And fliort my joy : but yet, O fong, do not forget. WHEN men were all afleep the Ihow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually fettling and loofely lying, Huthing the lateft traffic of the drowfy town ; Deadening, muffling, (lifting...

...which, as we now are speaking only of metre, a few verses must find place here. LONDON SNOW. "When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large...Into angles and crevices softly drifting and sailing. All night it fell, and when full inches seven It lay in the depth of its uncompacted lightness, Its...

...charming pictures, let us choose ' Tendon Snow.' When men were all asleep the snow came flying, 1 n large white flakes falling on the city brown, . Stealthily...Into angles and crevices softly drifting and sailing. All night it fell, and when full inches seven It lay in the depth of its uncompacted lightness, 1 ts...

...but quench the fire : ah ! could I stay My soul that flieth, alas, and dieth away ! LONDON SNOW WHEN men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large...Into angles and crevices softly drifting and sailing. All night it fell, and when full inches seven It lay in the depth of its uncompacted lightness, The...

...awhile remain on thee. and, thirdly, a realistically descriptive poem called " London Snow " : When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large...lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town. It will be seen at once that many of these lines are not only new in their rhythm, but are such as...

...quench the fire : ah ! could I stay My soul that flieth, alas, and dieth away ! LONDON SNOW , WHEN men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large...Into angles and crevices softly drifting and sailing. All night it fell, and when full inches seven It lay in the depth of its uncompacted lightness, The...

...and I turn to those wondrous lines of Mr. Robert Bridges which describe a snowfall in London : " When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large...brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town; Deadening, muffling, stifling its murmurs failing ;...

...they gaze, Their eyes shining, grave with a perfect pleasure. Laurence Binyon. 76. LONDON SNOW WHEN men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large...Into angles and crevices softly drifting and sailing. All night it fell, and when full inches seven It lay in the depth of its uncompacted lightness, The...