Snow in the Suburbs By Thomas Hardy-John Neville/USSR State Symphony Orchestra/Vienna State Opera Orchestra

[ti:Snow in the Suburbs By Thomas Hardy] [ar:John Neville] [al:Poetry and Music for Winter] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.63]Every branch big with it [00:02.46] [00:03.13]Bent every twig with it [00:04.80] [00:05.41]Every fork like a white web-foot [00:08.20]Every street and pavement mute [00:10.77] [00:11.76]Some flakes have lost their way [00:14.14]And grope back upward when [00:16.52]Meeting those meandering down [00:19.04]They turn and descend again [00:20.92] [00:21.88]The palings are glued together like a wall [00:24.91] [00:25.48]And there is no waft of wind with the fleecy fall [00:28.87] [00:29.83]A sparrow enters the tree [00:32.08]Whereon immediately [00:33.64]A snow-lump thrice his own slight size [00:37.31]Descends on him and showers his head and eyes [00:40.23] [00:40.74]And overturns him [00:42.11]And near inurns him [00:43.70] [00:44.25]And lights on a nether twig when its brush [00:47.15]Starts off a volley of other [00:49.26]Lodging lumps with a rush [00:50.96] [00:52.25]The steps are a blanched slope [00:55.37]Up which with feeble hope [00:58.14]A black cat comes wide-eyed and thin [01:01.76] [01:03.30]And we take him in [01:04.90]Snow in the Suburbs By Thomas Hardy - John Neville