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Loreena Mckennitt - (19to Drive The Cold Winter Away - Snow

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5. Snow

Music by Loreena McKennitt, lyrics by Archibald Lampman

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,
A 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 call
To cattle, sharply pealed,
Borne, echoing from some wayside stall
Or barnyard far afield.
hen all is silent and the snow falls
Settling soft and slow.

The evening deepens and the grey
Folds closer earth and sky
The world seems shrouded, so far away.
Its noises sleep, and I as secret as
Yon buried stream plod dumbly on and dream.

And dream, and dream:
And dream, and dream:
And dream, and dream: