In fields of winters' season wavers brittle grass
Many shades of green surrendered to autumns last
Moister clinging freezes into thin-layered frost
Throughout the fields lasting tinges are slowly lost

Snowflakes drift steadily in willy-nilly fall
Shimmering brightness of sprinkled dust covers all
Speckled blades with frozen drops bowing from high
Dance with wind, and imagines, casting out of sky

Shadows merging on ground foretell impending dread
Stormy billowed darkened clouds loom close overhead
Approaching outpour for a shuddered winters freeze
Awakens with the blast from a shivering breeze

Utter of nature bellows, without lacking force
Deluging tempests uproar rages harshly coarse
Torrent of Icy snow surges in briskly gales
Frigid winter's chilling wind furiously wails

Barren trees tip to breeze, alongside borders edge
Flow of drifting constant showers surrounding hedge
Across laden fields of white standing grasses few
Sprinkled dusting comes to bear long past winter due


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