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1 Oct 2021

The First Snowfall

by James Russell Lowell

The snow had begun in the gloaming,

And busily all the night

Had been heaping field and highway

With a silence deep and white.

 

5- Every pine and fir and hemlock

Wore ermine too dear for an earl,

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree

Was ridged inch deep with peart.

 

From sheds new-roofed with Carrara

10- Came Chanticleer's muffled crow,

The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down,

And still fluttered down the snow.

 

I stood and watched by the window

The noiseless work of the sky,

15- And the sudden flurries of snow-birds,

Like brown leaves whirling by.

 

I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn

Where a little headstone stood;

How the flakes were folding it gently,

20- As did robins the babes in the wood.

 

Up spoke our own little Mabel,

Saving "Father who makes it snow?"

 

 

Which lines below from Lowell's "The First Snowfall" would be best to cite to show the Romantic writer's characteristic love of nature?

A. 21 - Up spoke our own little Mabel, Saying, "Father, who makes it snow?"

B. 9 - From sheds new-roofed with Carrara Came Chanticleer's muffled crow

C. 11 - The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, And still fluttered down the snow.