The Mountain watches.

Snow-dusted silent streets. The midnight mass—

with quiet thronging worshippers that pass

from darkness into glimmering ecstasies.—

Another mood ...

The blizzard—

The swirling wall-like drifts, while through the streets

the snow-ploughs move like huge primeval beasts

glutted with power;

wallowing through the mists of drifting powdery particles,