Canadian singer Loreena McKennitt Snow-1987
“Snow” is a poem by famous Canadian poet Archibald Lampman, who has been referred to as “the Canadian Keats,” who lived in Ontario in the late 1800s and passed away at the young age of 37 in 1899.
White are the far-off plains, And white the fading forests grow;The wind dies out along the heightAnd denser still the snow,A gathering weight on roof and treeFalls down scarce audibly.
The meadows and far-sheeted streamsLie still without a sound;Like some soft minister of dreamsThe snowfall hoods me around;In wood and water, earth and air,A silence is everywhere.
Save when at lonely spellsSome farmer's sleigh is urged on,With rustling runner and sharp bells,Swings by me and is gone;Or from the empty waste I hearA sound remote and clear;
The barking of a dog, To cattle, is sharply pealed,Borne, echoing from some wayside stallOr barnyard far afield; Then all is silent and the snow Falls settling soft and slow
The evening deepens and the greyFolds closer Earth to skyThe world seems shrouded, so far away. Its noises sleep, and I As secret as yon buried stream Plod dumbly on and dream.
And dreamAnd dreamI dreamAnd I dream…
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| The Evergreen Guardian artist Unknown |
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