Winter Songs

And the night shall be filled with music,

And the cares that infest the day, 

Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,

 And as silently steal away.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Winter Songs

When winter days are cold and drear,

Listen to me, Friend so dear,

Listen well and you will hear

The winter's sweet sweet music.

Winter's cold sings spring's bright tale

A song of the sun and thawing dale

Which comes as promised—without fail

Now can't you hear that music?

Winter's hymn is of summer bright

When heat clings even into the night

And children run and fly a kite,

These tunes are in winter's music.

Winter's chorus sings autumn days

When fireflies flit and bonfires blaze

And crimson leaves a'falling raise

The melody of winter's music.

Winter's ballad is in the wind's cry

Lifting and falling as days pass by,

Afternoon shadows—the night's lullaby

Notes of the year's fairest music.

©Elece Hollis 2015

This book of poems by Helen Steiner Rice includes devotionals written by Elece Hollis.
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