Snow Reflections.
Some thoughts about SNOW.
When I was very young I remember that my mother used a few lines of poetry to caution my behavour. "Robert" she said "The future lies before you like a field of untrodden snow, be careful how you tread it for ever step will show". From what I recall she said that it was written by a friend in an autograph album she was given as a young woman.

One poem about Snow that I managed to commit to memory as a child was by Sir Alfred Noyes. He was born in Wolverhampton and died in the 1958. I haven't seen it in print for many years, as I remember it went like this.

The Healing Snow by Sir Alfred Noyes.
A pure white mantle blotted out the world I used to know,
There was no scarlet in the sky or on the hills below,
gently as mercy out of heaven came down the healing snow.

The trees that were so dark and bare stood up in radiant white,
And the road forgot its furrowed care as day forgets the night
And the new heaven and the new earth lay robed in dazzling light.

And every flake that fell from heaven was like an angel's kiss
Or a feather fluttering from the wings of some dear soul in bliss
Who gently leaned from that bright world to soothe the pain of this.


Snow is mentioned in the Bible in the Book of Job, Psalms, Proverbs and elsewhere.

The verses that come to mind today are in
Isaiah Chapter 55 verse 10 &11
"For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it." from the N.K.J.V. of the Bible.

If you take time to read further on in the King James Version of the Bible you will see that we "briars" get a mention - we get every where.

Yes, that really is me in the top right hand corner of the article.