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- alternativeAlternative form of where are the snows of yesteryear.
Where is Echo, beheld of no man, / Only heard on river and mere,— / She whose beauty was more than human? … / But where are the snows of yester-year?
1869 (date written), François Villon, “[Poems.] Three Translations from François Villon, 1450. I. The Ballad of Dead Ladies.”, in Dante Gabriel Rossetti, transl., Poems, London: F[rederick] S[tartridge] Ellis, […], published 26 April 1870, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 1772 more examples
[“][W]here is the Ocala Boy?” / “‘Where are the snows of yester-year?’” laughed Rhett, as he opened the gate and passed under the great trees in the enclosure of Mrs. Forceythe’s grounds.
1895, Maurice Thompson, “An Hour in a Tree-top”, in The Ocala Boy: A Story of Florida Town and Forest, Boston, Mass.: Lothrop Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 88Sometimes late at night when alcohol convinced me there was no need to hold my tongue I asked them a question which only tickled their animosity, or fuelled their malice: ‘Where are the snows of yester-year?’ They shook their heads, and warned me of what would happen if I did not mend my ways.
1990, Manning Clark, “Mr Passion on the Shores of Corio Bay”, in The Quest for Grace, Ringwood, Vic.: Viking, →ISBN, pages 117–118
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