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December 18, 2021 

Snow

Charles Bertram Johnson

All day the clouds
   Grow cold and fall,
And soft the white fleece shrouds
   Field, hill and wall;
And now I know
   Why comes the snow:
The bare black places lie
   Too near the sky.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on December 18, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets.

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“Snow” appeared in The Crisis XXI, no. 2 (December 1920).

Charles Bertram Johnson was born in Callao, Missouri in 1880. He is the author of the poetry collection Songs of My People (The Cornhill Company, 1918), and the pamphlets Wind Whisperings (1900) and The Mantle of Dunbar (1918). Johnson worked as a teacher and later became part of the ministry.
The Crisis
(December, 1920)

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