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snow, winter, cold, christmas, xmas, people, couples, men, women, hats, beards, shawls, towns
An old man and woman walk together, arm in arm, in dark snowy weather. He wears a broad-brimmed hat, uses a walking-stick or cane, and has a white beard; she has a woollen winter dress an a shawl against the cols. There are houses in the background, the edge of a village or small town.
The picture illustrates a powm, Winter, by Adelbert von Chaimisso; an English translation follows the original German:
Winter.
In den jungen Tagen
Hatt’ ich frischen Mut,
In der Sonne Strahlen
War ich stark und gut.
Liebe, Lebenswogen,
Sterne, Blumenlust!
Wie so stark die Sehnen!
Wie so voll die Brust!
Und es ist zerronnen,
Was ein Traum nur war;
Winter ist gekommen,
Bleichend mir das Haar.
Bin so alt geworden,
Alt und schwach und blind,
Ach! verweht das Leben,
Wie ein Nebelwind!
Winter
In the younger days
I had fresh courage,
In the sun’s rays
I was strong and good.
Love
, waves of life, stars, lust for flowers!
How strong the tendons!
How so full your chest!
And
what was just a dream melted away ;
Winter has come,
bleaching my hair.
Got so old,
old and weak and blind,
oh! life blows away
like a foggy wind!
