White mountain: not a pine
to draw the eye, as fire by night
draws, no owl to rouse the ear.

White sky: it begins
where the mountain ends, or
vise versa, not easy in the mind.

If now a man passed by,
or now, he would pass
no wiser, or only little:

his eye has noticed nothing,
his ear, and how tiny a wisdom
these flakes impart to his skin.