C-o-o-o-o!

Hear him croon!

O the wind is a gnome in the autumn

When the ways are brown with the leaf and burr;

Hist! mark him stir!

List! hark him whir!

S-s-s-s-t!

Hear him chirr!

O the wind is a wolf in the winter

When the ways are white for the hornèd owl;