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From The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser (NSW : 1863 - 1947)

1870-05-19 |

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A FALLEN WO3IA S BTORY.

Tar Omaha lRepublican oes the following

history of this production, 'hich the

London Spectator has proneouned a finest

poem over written in America. In ti

early part of the war, one dark Saturday

nig t in the dead of winter, there died

in the Con nercial loslpital in

Cinoinnati, a young woe an, over whose

head only two and twve y aumtuerr had

passed. She had hoartn at a possessed of

an enviable share of b?eauty, td lihad

been, as she herself says, "flattered a

sought for the charms of her face ;"

but, ai a I upon her fair brow had long

beeo written t at terrible word -. Once

the pride of re1 octable parent-. ago,

her first wrong stop eas the small

beginning of the samte old tory over

agian, wvhich has boon the only hi tory

of thousands. Hlighly educated and accom

lished in manoers, she might have slhoie

in ith bost soelety. But the evil liour

that proved lihe ruin came, and, hving

spent a young lif in disgrace and

shamte, the poor friendless to died the

melan.choyiv death of a lro1 .hearted

outeast. A mioig her persolnal ellfe to

wae s 'found, in 1S., "The Beautiful

Snow," whtich was iuiie. diately carried

to Elios 11. teed, a geutleiman of

eaituro and literary to ?nt, thun editor

of the o ational Union. Tilll DeAUTI UI

SNOW. Ohl l the snow,' the beau ful

stnow, Filling the sky apd.tho arth

below; )Ovor the house tpiýisro er the

itibet, Over the heatl/oi the Iooploe

you meet, Dancing. flirting. skieng lug

along; Beatiitfil saow, it can o nothing

wrong; Sllying to kiss na fair lady's

cheik, Cliniging to lips in a frolicsome

freak; Beauotifi snow from the hoeavpus

above, tre io an nmgel, gomtle ?slovel I

Ohl I the snow, tihe bleautifl snow,

lHow the flakes gather and laugh at they

go Whirling about in their maddening

fun, It plays in its gloee with

overyoneOhalmsing, laughing, hurrying

by, It lights on the face and sparkles

the oyo, And the dogs, with a hbark and

a boound, Snap at the crystals that eddy

nroundThe town is alive and its heart in

a glow To wulcot, lo com Hof beautifil

sntow. Hiow wildly. crow? 'ues swvayintg

alog. Ulhting ean otlr with i tmotr nid

song I MHor the gay gees liketmt tours

flash by, Bright for a noiint, then atr

to tthe eve; lRinging, swvinging,

dashing they go, Over the crust uof tuhe

bioautiful tuow-Snow so apure wohen it

ill from the sky As to muake one o eto ?

ea it lie, To be trampled anu akd a the

thousauds of feeool, Till it blends w to

filtlliii the horrible street. Once I

was ptlro as the snow, hlot I fell, Fell

likl.the shnoutries in heaven to hell;

Fall to itralcta tt in the strhut, Fell

to eloit r to apit othand beat.

Floioding, ting, iron'g to dio,

,Solling: ay soul t whoo'ne r would buy;

Dealihg in shamn for a morsel of broad,

H-ating the living and Inariog the dead,

Merciful CGod I have I fallen so low ?

Aadd yet I was on ]i' the beautiful

snow. Onto I rwn . nliful snow, With a n

oye nl, a heart liko its glow ; Once I

was loved for my innocont graceFlattered

and sought for the charms of my face ;

Ftther, mother, sister, and all, God and

inycelf; I hivoJdst by my fall: 'The

vorieost wretch that goos shivering by

Will make a wide swod , lost I wander

too nigh: For iall that is on or abov me

I nmowy T'horo's nothing so pure the

beautiful snow. How strange it should b

that this benutiful snow " Should fall

on sioer who It nowhere to gn; Hlow

strange it should lhen night comes

again, If the snow and the i? traoet my

aesperato brainh I Fainting, freozing,

dyin lone. Too wicked for prayer, t

wooak for it moano To bo hoard in the

strout the crazy town, Gone mad in

thojoy ofth o1 w oonhig down; To bo and

to dio li my Iter lo woo, With n bod and

t shroud 1 tho boeautiful snow.

-I1ilpl0ass and fool as tho atomplud

now, Sinner, dospidr not l Ohri stoopeth

low To resonoo tho soul that I oot in

its sil, And raise it to lifo and

njoymont ngalp. Groaoting, blcoding, dy

g for thou, '1Tho 1r1cilled hung onl II

aecoursen l treeo, His accents of mr0?y

fn soft on thineo oearIs thero mercy for

mo Will