The Winter Forest
The former postal path creeps into forest, deep in snow, the cobbles amply filled with shining white; we trudge in file, together - yet alone the while and tree steps after tree, softly into view.
The ageing oak, in blankets of fresh snow is now in sight, both gnarled and crooked. The little birch has wrapped the rime, fine trapped, about its young trunk, glitt'ring like a star.
The tall fir - trees are now come together, and 'neath the weight of snow almost clink from cold. Growing, aye, into the banks of cloud Their tree-tops stand, vastly proud. The old boughs crack beneath the weight.
The winter forest leads us on in heart and mind to the everlasting contrast: breathtaking the young brow, 'spite the changes time has wrought, yet I - see you not - nearly break beneath them,
(Nachdichtung: Derek Donaldson)
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