Loreena Mckennitt - Snow lyrics

rate me

White are the far-off plains,

And white the fading forests grow;

The wind dies out amongst the tides

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 snowfall hoods me around;

In wood and water, earth and air,

A silence is everywhere.

Save when at lonely spells

Some farmer's sleigh is urged on,

With rustling runner 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 afield;

Then all is silent and the snow

Falls settling soft and slow

The evening deepens and the grey

Folds closer Earth to 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

I dream

And I dream