![]() ![]() ![]() With the passing years, the coming of each spring heralds the loss of the snow child, little by little. The child, Faina, who emerges from the snow, seems in part to be forged from the darkness the long nights give Faina to Mabel and Jack, while the spring, when darkness recedes and the snow melts, takes her from them. The red cranberry of the girl's lips, on the white, is brighter against the night sky. And it is on the first night of winter, when "through the window, the night appeared dense, each snowflake slowed in its long, tumbling fall through the black", that the couple, momentarily carefree, build a girl out of snow. Symbolic, by turns, of both good and ill, it brings Mabel anguished dreams of "snowflakes and naked babies tumbled through her nights", yet summons up the time she first fell in love with her husband, which she remembers as "flying above the warm inky black night". Yet the role of darkness is sometimes reversed in this tale of enchantment, so entwined does it become with the appearance of the child. ![]()
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