Name: Snow
Duration: P00H04M57S
Description: The lyrics are by the 19th Century Canadian poet Archibald Lampman and the music is by Loreena Mckennitt.

Snow

by Shoshanna Godber

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The lyrics are by the 19th Century Canadian poet Archibald Lampman and the music is by Loreena Mckennitt.

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White are the far-off plains, and white
The fading forests grow;
The wind dies out along the height,
And denser still the snow,
A gathering weight on roof and tree,
Falls down scarce audibly.

The meadows and far-sheeted streams
Lie still without a sound;
Like some soft minister of dreams
The snow-fall hoods me round;
In wood and water, earth and air,
Silence is everywhere.

Save when at lonely spells
Some farmer's sleigh, urged on,
With rustling runners and sharp bells,
Swings by me and is gone;
Or from the empty waste I hear
A sound remote and clear;

The barking of a dog
To cattle is sharply pealed,
Borne echoing from some wayside stall
Or barnyard far a-field;
Then all is silent, and the snow
Falls, settling soft and slow.

The evening deepens, and the gray
Folds closer round the sky;
The world seems shrouded far away;
Its noises sleep, and I,
As secret as yon buried stream,
Plod dumbly on, and dream.

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released May 4, 2021
Harp, Irish whistle and vocals by Shoshanna Godber

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