From Heaven I fall, though from earth I begin.
No lady alive can show such a skin.
I'm bright as an angel, and light as a feather,
But heavy and dark, when you squeeze me together.
Though candor and truth in my aspect I bear,
Yet many poor creatures I help to insnare.
Though so much of Heaven appears in my make,
The foulest impressions I easily take.
Snow? Or volcanic ash, I suppose.
ReplyDeleteSnow is what the poem was speaking of. I hadn't thought of ash, but that's certainly relevant these days.
ReplyDeletei thought it was grapes! as in, making wine
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