| WINTER |
| "Leafless are the trees; their purple branches Spread themselves abroad, like reefs of coral, Rising silent In the Red Sea of the winter sunset." |
| --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "A chill no coat, however stout, Of homespun stuff could quite shut out, A hard, dull bitterness of cold, That checked, mid-vein, the circling race Of life blood in the sharpened face, The coming of the snowstorm told." |
| --John Greenleaf Whittier |
| winter | play | sleep |
| cold | frozen | covers |
| under | lake | fort |
It is winter.
Summer and autumn have gone.
The air is cold.
The robins and the bluebirds have gone.
The snow falls from the sky.
The snow covers the hills and the woods and the fields.
The flowers sleep under the snow in my garden.
They will wake when it is spring. [{60}]
The lake is frozen.
I see the white snow in my garden.
I love to play in the snow.
I will make a fort of the white snow in my garden.
I love the cold winter days.
God gives us the winter days as well as the summer days.
| "He giveth snow like wool; He scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes." |
| --Psalms 147:16. |
| THE SEA |
| "Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play, Time writes no wrinkles on thine azure brow-- Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now." |
| --Lord Byron |