Snow flakes. 1
I counted till they danced so
Their slippers leaped the town,
And then I took a pencil
To note the rebels down. 5
And then they grew so jolly
I did resign the prig,
And ten of my once stately toes
Are marshalled for a jig!
I counted till they danced so
Their slippers leaped the town,
And then I took a pencil
To note the rebels down. 5
And then they grew so jolly
I did resign the prig,
And ten of my once stately toes
Are marshalled for a jig!
(F.45/J.36)
[1] Snow flakes:: summer snowflake, a plant with white, bell-shaped flowers.
[2] counted, danced:: she counted the number of petals that fell jigglingly.
[3] slippers:: the only suspicious word in this poem, snowflakes don't really look like slippers.
[5] rebels:: those petals don't dance.
[9] jig:: a dance like the way petals fall.
THE SUMMER SNOWFLAKE Has a large, oblong bulbous root, crowned with several long, flat, broad leaves; and amidst them an upright, thick, hollow stalk, fifteen or eighteen inches high; with many white flowers, on slender foot-stalks, drooping downwards; flowering in May. ─ The Christian Miscellany (1854)