Green Grass Under Snow - Missoula, Montana

"The work of the sun is slow,

But as sure as heaven, we know;

  So we'll not forget,

  When the skies are wet,

There's green grass under the snow..."

- from The Green Grass Under The Snow 
by Annie A. Preston 
(published in varied periodicals & poetry collections in the late 1800s and early 1900s)