Falls the Snow

Pada snieg. Padac (“to fall”), snieg (“snow”): “falls the snow”. Who doesn’t love the unconscious poetry of straight translation, the rendering of one language, word for word, unidiomatically into another. As if other cultures spoke and thought routinely in King James English, archaic, beautifully inverted. Falls the snow. It was snowing here Saturday night, three inches of the rich stuff, ermine and pearl. Comes the winter.