“The Cross of Snow” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (1807-1882)
References
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “The Cross of Snow”. The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English. edited by Phyllis Levin. NY: Penguin Books, 2001. poem is found on page 120.
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