It's 2 am and I am pacing the floor with a backache. Stepping to the window I look outdoors. The moon is brilliant, reflecting off the snow and lighting a blue diamond sky. The words of Clement Clarke Moore came to mind...
The moon on the crest of the new fallen snow gave a luster of midday to objects below.
Surely he was walking the floor at 2 am on a moonlit night when he wrote that poem.
I am so smitten by the pale loveliness that I momentarily think of putting on coat and boots and taking a walk. But then I think of waking the neighbors' dogs and how silly I might look at 2 am if the neighbors might peek out their window. (If I lived in the country and had a good Fido dog to walk with me...I would have gone!) I take one last wistful glance before lying down to finally fall asleep.
2 comments:
I hope you were able to get some good rest last night. So sorry about your backache. Ouch....take care.
That was a beautiful picture you painted with your words. That line from Clement Clarke Moore has also come to me when looking out over a still blanket of snow. Granted, those times have been few, as snow for our area is not a regular occurrence. I wish it were.
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