Snow-flakes

Painting by Claude Monet (1840 -1926 ), Neige à Argenteuil (1874-1875)

Out of the bosom of the Air,
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent and soft and slow
Descends the snow.

Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow