WINTER.
Colcl are the winds that blow, Weird is their sighing , Sad'.y the rain-clouds go Weeping and crying ; Earth wears a sombre hue ; All Nature sleeping, From our eyes' longing view Her treasures keeping. Bare are the willows now, Drooping so sadly, Tho' every naked bough Once danced so gladlyDanced in the summer air, Waved in the breezes. Pity that grey despair Such rapture seizes; 1 On the far snow-tipped hill Falls the pale sunlight, Through the dark valley chill Shrieks the wild storm-sprite; Hurrying gales rush by, Loud in tlieir wailing : A'ld the foft snmvflakDs fly. L ke white shioucl trailing. Ah! "Winter cold and bleak, Dienching and dreary ' Xot m thy praise I speak ; Bui growing weary Of thy short, chilly days, Of thy haish dealing, And thy co'.d-hearted ways Over me stealing. But tho' thou'rt grim and giey, Season of Sadness, Not long canst thou hold sway; For when in gladness The bright sun brighter shines, Thy spell is broken. Then' thy brief day declines, For Spring has spoken. Mornington, July, 1902.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2524, 30 July 1902, Page 59
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175WINTER. Otago Witness, Issue 2524, 30 July 1902, Page 59
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