The silence was utter, the sleep was long   A torment for even the brave   Peals of thunder even did not forsake   The lifeless soil of this eternal-white land      A domain of no mercy - White, so bright   As a day of calm, flawless might   Beware the coming of night   The shade of essential ingenuity   Acknowledge the darkness, link of dawn      The branches hung low   Softly covered by snow   Even the strongest will   Recoil beneath their silent chill      See the plains so eternally white   Bright, in spite of even the night   To be where the eagles fly   With a haughty hunters eye      Feel the kiss of the silver draped frost   Your age-old toil, haunted and lost   High up there, where His ravens once flew   The lightning strikes - even deep in the snow      "You have to wake, wipe the ice from your eyes"