WINTERTIME
Black are my steps on silver sod,
Thick blows my frosty breath abroad;
And tree and house, and hill and lake,
Are frosted like a wedding cake!
                 -author unknown

Snow makes whiteness where it falls
The bushes look like popcorn-balls,
And places where I always play
Look like somewhere else today.
                 -author unknown

BEAUTIFUL FLAKES OF SNOW

"O beautiful flakes of snow,
Falling so softly around,
I wonder what good you do
By covering all the ground!"

"Dear children," the little flakes said,
"We have our work to do;
By covering the roots and plants,
We keep them the winter through."
                 -New Canadian Reader
                  Book I (1898)