A.mong her personal effects was
found, in |18., ? - THE BEAUTIFlTIi
SNOW. Oh ! the snow, the beantif al
enow, Filling the sky and the earth
below ; Orsr the house topi, over the
street,, Over the heato of the people
you meet, Paucing, flirting, skimming
along; Beautiful sbov) it can do
nothing' wrong] Flying to fcisg s box
lady's cheek, Cliogiog to lips in' a
froliosome freak l Beautiful enow, from
the heavens above, Pore ss on angel,
gentle as love ! Oh I the snow, the
beantif al enow. How thejflakes gather
and laugh as they ff« Whirling about in
their maddening fan, * It playi m its
glee with everyone— -Chafing, laughing,
harrying by, It lights on the face and
sparkles the aya-And the dogs, with a
bark and « bound. ?Soap *i the crystals
that eddy around— The town is alive and
its heart in a glow To welcome the
coming of beautiful snow* How wildly
tWcrowa, goes swaying along, Hailing
each other with humor and eong S
S£*I*hS'^t «*^ttJttamafcwM* fl-h -r,
Bright ror.tno moment, then lost to
theeyai '~ Binging. ewingins;, dasliing
they n-, Over the crust of the beautiful
mbw^Saoir so para when it fa'la front
tha eky M to make one regret to see it
lie To.be tmmpled and tracked by the
thousands of feet, TlUit blends with the
filth in thehorriblegfcrwt Once I was
port as the snow, but I fell. Fell like
tie sno wfiakes from heaven to hell )
fell to be trampled aa filth in the
street ; Fell to be scoffed, to be spit
on and beat. Pleading, cursing, dreading
to, die, Selling my soul to whoever
would buy ; Dealing im shame for a
morsel of bread, Bating the tiring and
fetai&g the dead. MertHful GnA I hn.vo T
failan on tnv 0 And yet I was once like
thebeftutiful snow I Once I was fair as
the beautiful Snow, With on eye like its
crystal, a heart like its 1 glow; ,.
Quito I was -loved for my innocent
grace— Flattered ind Boughtforthecharias
of my foot? IWttBTrmowBr; swtor and
all.; - ?''' - - ? God and ttirself, I
have lost bj my fall ; The veriest
wretch that goes shivering by Will make
a wide swoop, lest Iwanderioonigh; For
al) that is on or abovemo I know: . ' '
There's nothing so pur* as the beautiful
snow* How strange it should be that this
beautiful. snow . V Should fall on a
sinner with nowhere to go ; How Btrange
should it be, when night cornea again;
If the snow and the ice struck my
desperate , brainl Fainting, freezing,
dying alone. Too wicked for prayer, too
weak for a moan To be heard in the
street of th« crazy town, Gone mad in
the joy o! the eaosr coming down; To be
and to die in my terrible woe, With a
bed andashrjud of the beautiful snow.
Helpless and foul as the trampled snow,
Sinner, despair not 1 Christ stbopeth
low To rescue the soul that is lost iu
its sin, And raise it to life and
enjoyment again. (jronnJrg, -bleeding,
dying for thee, — The crucified hung on
the accursed tree. His accents of mercy
fell Bof t on thine earls there merojE
for me f Will Be heed my prayer? : Oh.
Godl in thaetream that for sinners did
flow,. Wvsh me, and J shall be whiter
than snow. i