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First Snow

Text of Poem

The road and yard are full of dust
          That sifted from a cloud last night,
And I’ve come out because I must
          Review a brown world changed to white.
And lest I failed to understand
          The change that lies before my eyes,
I tramp about upon my land
          Examining each white surprise.
And I make new acquaintances
          Where I had left old friends before—
I shake the pump’s protesting arm
          And knock upon my own back door.

First Line
The road and yard are full of dust
Original Pub Location
Original Publication Date
1926
Original Citation
Midland (Aug. 1926) 239.
Complete Poems
24
Hearst Collections
Word Count
77
Poetic Form
closed
Bibliographic Notes

Publishing Error: pages 19-20 and 41-42 and incorrectly printed twice, back to back, between pages 30-31

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