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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

III. The Seasons

Winter Song

Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty (1748–1776)

SUMMER joys are o’er;

Flowerets bloom no more,

Wintry winds are sweeping;

Through the snow-drifts peeping,

Cheerful evergreen

Rarely now is seen.

Now no plumèd throng

Charms the wood with song;

Ice-bound trees are glittering;

Merry snow-birds, twittering,

Fondly strive to cheer

Scenes so cold and drear.

Winter, still I see

Many charms in thee,—

Love thy chilly greeting,

Snow-storms fiercely beating,

And the dear delights

Of the long, long nights.