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The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Night
Highways
Begun
Snow
Field
Fields
Gloaming
Deep
Busily
Silence
Heaping
White
Highway

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