1.

Baby looks at the snow piling up outside the window;
signs it's all lovely, all strange; waves a hand.
Like baby trees shaking baby leaves.
Baby knows all the hidden things:
why snow falls, and the lovely things the snowflakes whisper;
knows all — a perfectly contented still life.

2.

After a while, baby learns the word " Mum. "
This means he is forgetting the hidden things of the word " Mum. "
But he doesn't realize.
Flowers, trees, stars.
With elation baby learns the words,
forgetting the hidden things of each.
And when he has forgotten all the hidden things,
baby is a full-fledged person.

3.

Thus when snow piles up like today,
he'll fret from thoughts of a girl.
Walking the bank of the stream,
he will cry from nostalgia self-directed.