Friday, December 20, 2019

In wintry mourning draped

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

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