A Winters Tale

In the wintry countryside, January bares her soul and lets little buds grow, Under drifts of pure white snow, hedge high frost hardened, there is movement, Shoots of brave winter flowers wake, and they in turn wake our summer flowers, Then the rarest of all our flowers the blow flower stirs hidden away from all. With frosted snow lay-ed and the skies clear, it reflects a lapis lazuli blue, The new snow that has fallen on top of icy snow the breeze blows it into spray, The binding of the snow beneath there is hardness that allows us to walk on it, Walking on snow is a wonderful feeling looking over hedge tops and deep valleys. It's good to feel the frozen mass crunching under foot but we sometimes slide, Only rivers show themselves, their wintery hues amid the trees and grey rocks, And because it has been a snowy winter stories circulate around warm firesides, Of travelers lost in great drifts on the wild moorlands and snow laden forests.