"...the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the decent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
This is a metaphor for iscolation - not being able to know othersm, even people closest to us (Gretta). It lies "thickly drifted" upon all objects acting as a barrier and isolating.
The snow also functions as a symbol for the death - it comes to everyone.
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