What a world we live in.....

 NATURE by Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity, so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

 Nothing is cheap a coarse, neither dewdrops nor snowflakes. What a world we live in, where myriads of these little disks.....

 so beautiful to the most prying eyes, 

 are whirled down on every traveler's coat, 

 the observant  and the unobservant,

 on the restless squirrel's fur, on the far stretching fields and forest,

 the wooded dells  and mountaintops.

 Far, far away from the haunts of men, they roll down some slope,

 fall over and come to their bearings, 

 and melt or lose their beauty in the mass,

 ready anon to swell some little rill.....

 with their contribution and so,

 at last, the universal ocean from which they came.....

 2017. "Nature" an essay from H. D. Thoreau. (From 1000 Beautiful things. 1948)