The Snow
Composer : Edward William Elgar
Librettist : Caroline Alice Elgar

O snow, which sinks so light,
Brown earth is hid from sight,
O soul, be thou as white,
O soul, be thou as white as snow,

O snow, which falls so slow,
Dear earth quite warm below;
O heart, so keep thy glow,
Beneath the snow.

O snow, in thy soft grave,
Sad flowers the winter brave;
O heart, so soothe and save, as does the snow.

The snow must melt, must go,
Fast as water flow.
Not thus, my soul, O sow,
Thy gifts to fade like snow.

O snow, thou’rt white no more,
Thy sparkling too, is o’er;
O soul, be as before, was bright the snow.

Then as the snow all pure,
O heart be, but endure;
Through all the years full sure,
Not as the snow.

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