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Show twje yagaon uignmitic February 10, 1977 Have you seen the Great White Silence? Not much snow in the mountains this year but what there is creates an unexplainable peace. If If youre a skier, get off the beaten path for a while. youre a snowmobiler, turn off your roaring machine for a minute. Feel the deep stillness. Not a snow gemmed twig aquiver. m f . ,. r r I If 1 "c , The winter, the brightness that blinds you. The white land locked tight as a drum. The cold fear that follows and finds you, The silence that bludgeons you dumb. The snows that are older than history, The woods where the weird shadows slant, The stillness, the moonlight, the mystery, I've bade them good-by- e but I can't. Robert Service Pae S |