Winter pine tree draped in snow. William S. Keller, 1979. via National Park Service |
The Desert truly is here— Moral and Natural Wastes.— Gray stunted trees in wintry mourning draped with moss. Chill winds wail,— wild beasts howl,— and my heart echoes, 'Far—lone—forgot.' -- March 1853 Scenes Beyond the Western Border; and Scenes and Adventures in the Army
By wintry hills his hermit-mound
The sheeted snow-drifts drape.... --Monody by Herman Melville