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"Snow falling and night falling fast, oh fast," wrote Robert Frost, the great American poet, in "Desert Places." He was a poet who knew something about snowstorms, having spent much of his life in the wintry states of New Hampshire and Vermont, where one can expect to be snowed in several times a year, often for days at a time.

December 20, 2020 at 01:48AM https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/19/opinions/what-can-sustain-us-through-this-darkest-season-parini/index.html"Snow falling and night falling fast, oh fast," wrote Robert Frost, the great American poet, in "Desert Places." He was a poet who knew something about snowstorms, having spent much of his life in the wintry states of New Hampshire and Vermont, where one can expect to be snowed in several times a year, often for days at a time.