WINTER.
MUSIC COMPOSED FOR MERRY’S MUSEUM, BY G. J. WEBB.
’Tis winter; ’tis winter; the morning is gray:
A cold looking sky is above us to-day;
And see, where the hilltops are naked and brown,
The pretty white snowflakes come quietly down.
They come in their beauty, like spirits of light,
And wrap the chilled earth with a mantle of white:
Beneath it the daisies are sheltered and warm,
And safe from the blasts of the pitiless storm.
And soon, when the sunbeams of summer shall come,
They’ll start up anew from their snow-covered home:
They’ll spread their green leaves over valley and plain,
And catch the bright dews in their blossoms again.
MERRY’S MUSEUM.
VOLUME II.—No. 6.