Friday, November 21, 2008

Snow-flakes

Out of the bosom of the air,

Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,dsc_0418

Over the woodlands brown and bare,

Over the harvest-fields forsaken,

Silent, and soft, and slow

Descends the snow.

Even as our cloudy fancies take

suddenly shape in some divine expression,

Even as the troubled heart doth make

In the white countenance confession,

The troubled sky reveals

The grief it feels.

This is the poem of the air,

Slowly in silent syllables recorded;

This is the secret of despair,

Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,

Now whispered and revealed

to wood and field.

Longfellow

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks, those kind thoughts so elegantly written, just made my day.

Matthew said...

Well the only thing in that post that is mine is the photo, the words were borrowed from Longfellow. But, your welcome none the less.