id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 9212 Hawthorne, Nathaniel Snow Flakes (From "Twice Told Tales") .txt text/plain 2025 98 79 street and our little garden will be heaped with mountain snow-drifts. of its own, when Mother Earth, like her children, shall have put on little snow-particles, which the storm-spirit flings by handfuls may take his own time to accomplish Nature's burial in snow. shivering in a shallow snow-drift, looking, poor things! It is a snow-battle of school-boys. to build a lofty monument of snow upon the battle-field, and crown it staff a huge icicle, his beard and hair a wind-tossed snow-drift, he ungrateful be his New England children,--for Winter is our sire, a snow-drift at the shrinking form of Spring; yet, step by step, he is of uncovered earth, where the gust has whirled away the snow, heaping hearse, bestrewn with snow, is bearing a dead man through the storm to storm, and fluttering on the dreary verge of the winter's eve? wandering flock of snow-birds. ./cache/9212.txt ./txt/9212.txt