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Healed with snow: Explain the appropriateness of the metaphor.

James Russell Lowell

94-95. Is the transition here from the prelude to the story abrupt, or

do the preceding lines lead up to it appropriately? Just why does Sir

Launfal now remember his vow? Do these lines introduce the "theme"

that the musing organist has finally found in dreamland, or the

symbolic illustration of his theme?