Read "The Cherry-Snows" at The Eldritch Dark:
http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/poetry/87/the-cherry-snows
This is a simple little nature study from Clark Ashton Smith (CAS). It's interesting that in the closing quatrain, he rhymes the word "white" with itself:
The orchard earth, unclothed and brown,
Is wintry-hued with petals white:
Even as the snow they glimmer down:
Brief as the snow's their stainless white.
The rhyme works of course, but it does have an odd feel, and is especially noticeable in such a short poem.
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