English poem
A Lady of the Snows
by Harriet Monroe (1860–1936)
The mountain hemlock droops her lacy branches Oh, so tenderly In the summer sun! Yet she has power to baffle avalanches— She, rising slenderly Where the rivers run.
So pliant yet so powerful! Oh, see her Spread alluringly Her thin sea-green dress! Now from white winter's thrall the sun would free her To bloom unenduringly In his glad caress.