<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419631" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Snow</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Who affirms that crystals are alive?'<br>I affirm it, let who will deny:<br>Crystals are engendered, wax and thrive,<br>Wane and wither; I have seen them die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Trust me, masters, crystals have their day,<br>Eager to attain the perfect norm,<br>Lit with purpose, potent to display<br>Facet, angle, colour, beauty, form.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Water-crystals need for flower and root<br>Sixty clear degrees, no less, no more;<br>Snow, so fickle, still in this acute<br>Angle thinks, and learns no other lore:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such its life, and such its pleasure is,<br>Such its art and traffic, such its gain,<br>Evermore in new conjunctions this<br>Admirable angle to maintain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Crystalcraft in every flower and flake<br>Snow exhibits, of the welkin free:<br>Crystalline are crystals for the sake,<br>All and singular, of crystalry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet does every crystal of the snow<br>Individualize, a seedling sown<br>Broadcast, but instinct with power to grow<br>Beautiful in beauty of its own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Every flake with all its prongs and dints<br>Burns ecstatic as a new-lit star:<br>Men are not more diverse, finger prints<br>More dissimilar than snow-flakes are.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Worlds of men and snow endure, increase,<br>Woven of power and passion to defy<br>Time and travail: only races cease,<br>Individual men and crystals die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Davidson">John Davidson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419631" data-title="Snow de John Davidson" data-description="'Who affirms that crystals are alive?' I affirm it, let who will deny: Crystals are engendered, wax and thrive, Wane and wither; I have seen them die. Trust me, masters, crystals have their day, Eager to attain the perfect norm, Lit with purpose,..."></div> </div> </div>

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