Fall of Stars

The snow came down like stars tonight

Over the city silently.

The air, like a great glittering tree,

Bloomed noiselessly with light.

I thought, it is the snow I see

Like stars. And it was long ago

That ever I saw the stars like snow.

And I thought of a boy, a long time dead,

Who dreamed such beauty out of pain

That music moved within his brain,

And the stars stormed about his head.

His ghost is like the wind, I said,

That cries into the crystal gloom,

And wanders where the white clouds blow.

And I shall hear his song, I know,

Wherever. the boughs of silence bloom

With snow like stars or stars like snow.