When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes …

John Dryden
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When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell. ✨ John Dryden (1808). The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, p.407
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When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell. ✨ John Dryden (1808). The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, p.407

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