Oh, Morena the Withering, and Karna-Grief!
‘twas preordained by the severe wintry will…
And the timid, aged, feeble Sun can’t restrain
This dismal anxiety of the frosty sinister wind…
Transparent air grows cold in this way,
In this way the Night expands,
Like this, on the moans of the fatally tired Nature,
Winter comes into being.
…So, early snow buries the ground.
The Dusk slinks as a silent beast.
The Moon creeps slowly after it –
More and more confidently, higher and higher!
Oh, the blizzard infall - First Wintry Touches!
Snowstorms blend the skies with the earth!
And in the death’s endless approaching
It’s hard to be itself for the world!
Oh, the still of these snowy vast lands…
Oh, the azure expanse of ice…
Oh, this great, wintry, eternal
Elucidating dolour trance!..
Oh, these birdless heavens –
Aeonian, serene silence-sky!
The enigmatic slumber of numb woods…
Oh, the time to contemplate – Hiems!
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