Nothing for the birds is here;

Very cold the air is growing,

’Tis the winter of the year:

Frost will nip the robins’ food,

’Twill no more be sweet and good.

“See the clouds the skies that cover;

’Tis from them the snowflakes fall,

Whitening hills and fields all over,

Hanging from the fir-trees tall.

Were it warm, ’twould rain; but lo,