Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow/Winter Song

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4635764Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow — Winter Song1905Paul Laurence Dunbar

WINTER SONG

OH, who would be sad tho' the sky
be a-graying,
And meadow and woodlands are empty
   and bare;
For softly and merrily now there come
   playing,
The little white birds thro' the winter-
   kissed air.

The squirrel's enjoying the rest of the
   thrifty,
He munches his store in the old hollow
   tree;
Tho' cold is the blast and the snow-flakes
   are drifty
He fears the white flock not a whit
   more than we.

Chorus:

Then heigho for the flying snow!
Over the whitened roads we go,
   With pulses that tingle,
   And sleigh-bells a-jingle
For winter's white birds here's a cheery
heigho!