Late Snow
The heavy train through the dim country went rolling,
rolling,
Interminably passing misty snow-covered plough-land
ridges
That merged in the snowy sky; came turning
meadows, fences,
Came gullies and passed, and ice-coloured streams
under frozen bridges.
Across the travelling landscape evenly drooped and
lifted
The telegraph wires, thick ropes of snow in the wind-
less air;
[ . . . ]
J.C. Squire's poem "Late Snow" was published in Georgian Poetry, 1920-1922. To read the poem in full in a digitized version of this anthology, follow the link below: