Felice Brothers The snow's falling softly and the grass is still green The captain above me is so luminously clean We're daisy companions, a man and his beast Silver in shadow and the cold's just a dream. I know I hear you heaving and kicking the dirt I know that it's broken and I know that it hurts There's a river of nothing and you're dying of thirst Just one sip and off you swim, it's the last day you'll work. Do you die like an Irish in an anthracite mine ? Are you alive like the first night with your candlelit bride ? She's your darling companion and so thoughtlessly kind We'll ride out to meet her the day we survive.