Days in Switzerland. Falling snow

有山有水, 雪下 了。

As are Japan and Norway, Switzerland is a favourite holidays destination of our family (and, being much closer, is a much more frequent one !).

While living there years ago, I fell in love with Montreux. Little Elsa playing under the falling snow here is just about to turn 4, two years ago.

Snowing; snowing;

Oh, between earth and sky

A wintry wind is blowing,

Scattering with its sigh

Petals from trees of silver that shine

Like invisible glass, when the moon

In the void of night on high

Paces her orchards divine.

Snowing; snowing;

Ah me, how still, and how fair

The air with flakes interflowing,

The fields crystal and bare,

When the brawling brooks are dumb

And the parched trees matted with frost,

And the birds in this wilderness stare

Dazzled and numb !

Snowing… snowing…  snowing:

Moments of time through space

Into hours, centuries growing,

Till the world's marred lovely face,

Wearied of change and chance,

Radiant in an innocence dream -

Lulled by an infinite grace

To rest an eternal trance.

Walter de la Mare

Snowing in The fleeting and Other Poems