Whose woods these are, I think I know.

Unchanged, but not the same.

The blanket unfurled, its downy pillows clinging to branch and bough.

Whose woods these are, I think I know.

The balsam a balm for the aches and the weariness.

These woods, they are mine.
Yet they don't belong to me.

I claim them from memory, from sentiment.

From geography, from time.

This snowy evening, in this remote place

On this tiny speck in an infinite universe

They are mine.