WINTER
Winter speeds across the plain,
Thunders drum the marching strain,
And what once within me blossomed
Will not bear new fruit again.
Winter settles in the park
Where the trees stand bleak and stark;
With a merry song who’ll cheer me
When it’s cold and when it’s dark?
Winter roams about the grove,
Silenced birds leave in a drove;
’Twill be hard to dream of Maytime
And of roses that once throve.
Winter hastens towards the field
Where frosts have cast their chilling shield.
And I fear that what once pained me
Will again new anguish yield.
Winter grips the forest’s wreath,
Blows across the moss and heath;
And I know not how I can live
When my song no more shall breathe.
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) between 1923 and 1977 (inclusive) without a copyright notice. The author died in 1987, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 30 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works. |