Frost Work
These winter nights, against my window-pane Nature with busy pencil draw's designs Of ferns and blossoms and nno spray of pines, Oak-leaf and acorn and fantastic vines, which she will shape when summer comes again— Quaint arabesques in argent, flat and cold, Like curious Chinese etchings.—By and by (I in my leafy garden as of old) These frosty fantasies shall charm my eye In azure, damask, emerald and gold. —Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Pooms. 4»-»»
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6911, 17 May 1929, Page 11
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76Frost Work Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6911, 17 May 1929, Page 11
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