frost-shackles

Updated: May 13, 2025

Here it is strange to watch the swirl of water freeing itself from these frost-shackles, and to see it eddying beneath the overhanging eaves of frailest crystal-frosted snow. All is so silent, still, and weird in this white world, that one marvels when the spirit of winter will appear, or what shrill voices in the air will make his unimaginable magic audible.

John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series