A SNOW-STORM 



the cell last. All organic nature is built 

 up of the cell ; all inorganic, of the crystal. 

 Cell upon cell rises the vegetable, rises the 

 animal ; crystal wedded to and compacted 

 with crystal stretches the earth beneath 

 them. See in the falling snow the old 

 cooling and precipitation, and the shooting, 

 radiating forms that are the architects of 

 planet and globe. 



We love the sight of the brown and 

 ruddy earth ; it is the color of life, while a 

 snow-covered plain is the face of death ; 

 yet snow is but the mask of the life-giving 

 rain ; it, too, is the friend of man, the 

 tender, sculpturesque, immaculate, warm- 

 ing, fertilizing snow. 



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