Garden in Snow

Board vice president Jim Dawson slipped out to the garden late this afternoon to capture the Courtyard in Seattle's first snow of the season, first of the new year. These beautiful shots call to mind two great poets across two great continents: Bai Juyi (772-846) and Robert Frost (1874-1963) both of whom shared a love for the beauty of simplicity and honesty, and a renown for their highly regarded realistic depictions of rural life, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. 

白居易: 夜雪

Bai Juyi: Night in Snow

已訝衾枕冷

復見窗户明

夜深知雪重

時聞折竹聲

Surprised to find, so cold, my quilt and pillow,

Then light I see from the papered casement window.

Deep in the night, so heavy it snows, I know, when

Bamboos go crack ~ a sound, now and then, I follow.

Translated by Andrew W.F. Wong. 
(Huang Hongfa) 譯者: 黃宏發

Dust of Snow

by Robert Frost 

The way a crow

Shook down on me

The dust of snow

From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart

A change of mood

And saved some part

Of a day I had rued.