And unbidden, a poem came into my mind that I had learnt at junior school in the UK:
Still the white snow whirls softly down.
Twig and bough and blade and thorn,
All in an icy quiet, forlorn.
On sill and stone roof – everywhere,
It heaps its powdery crystal flakes,
Of every tree a mountain makes;
Stoops from the West one wint’ry ray,
And, feathered in fire where ghosts the moon,
A robin shrills his lonely tune;
Flits she who had been in hiding there.
Happy Winter Knitting!
Moira
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