Snowfall

SNOWFALL

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Like countless fairies coming down,
The snowflakes fall and cover ground,
And all the land, it seems, is lost,
Beneath this playground of Jack Frost.

Though adults watch the skies and fear,
Disruption to the work day’s near,
Their children cannot wait to stray,
To go out in the snow and play.

Snowmen rise whose life depends,
On the hands of children friends,
Rolling snowballs big and thick,
Carroty noses, arms of sticks.

Icicles form on roofs and bough,
Branches dusted with sugar now,
This wonderland of ice and frost,
Will, on the warming sun, be lost.