"I saw fair Chloris walk alone, When feather’d rain came softly down, As Jove descending from his Tower To court her in a silver shower: The wanton snow flew to her breast, Like pretty birds into their nest, But, overcome with whiteness there, For grief it thaw’d into a tear: Thence falling on her garments’ hem, To deck her, froze into a gem."
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William Strode, "Chloris in the Snow", The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900)
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