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WINTER	A
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Awake arise all my stormy powers	B
The earth the fair earth again is ours	B
At my stern approach pale Autumn flings down	C
In the dust her broken and faded crown	C
At my glance the terrified mourner flies	D
And the earth is filled with her doleful cries	D
Awake for the season of flowers is o'er	A
My white banner unfurl on each northern shore	E
Ye have slumbered long in my icy chain	F
Ye are free to travel the land and main	F
Spirits of frost quit your mountains of snow	G
Will ye longer suffer the streams to flow	G
Up up and away from your rocky caves	H
And herald me over the pathless waves	H
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He ceased and rose from his craggy throne	I
And girt around him his icy zone	I
And his meteor eye grew wildly bright	J
As he threw his glance o'er those realms of night	J
He sent forth his voice with a mighty sound	K
And the snows of ages were scattered around	K
And the hollow murmurs that shook the sky	L
Told to the monarch his band was nigh	L
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THE WIND FROST	M
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I come o'er the hills of the frozen North	N
To call to the battle thy armies forth	N
I have swept the shores of the Baltic sea	O
And the billows have felt my mastery	O
They resisted my power but strove in vain	F
I have curbed their might with my crystal chain	F
I roused the northwind in his stormy cave	P
Together we passed over land and wave	P
I sharpened his breath and gave him power	A
To crush and destroy every herb and flower	A
He obeyed my voice and is rending now	Q
The sallow leaves from the groaning bough	Q
And he shouts aloud in his wild disdain	F
As he whirls them down to the frozen plain	F
Those beautiful leaves to which Spring gave birth	R
Are scattered abroad on the face of the earth	R
I have visited many a creek and bay	S
And curdled the streams in my stormy way	S
I have chilled into hail the genial shower	A
All this I have done to increase thy power	A
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THE RIME FROST	M
	-
I stood by the stream in the deep midnight	J
The moon through the fog shed a misty light	J
I arrested the vapours that floated by	L
And wove them in garlands and hung them on high	L
I bound the trees in a feathery zone	I
And turned the soft dews of heaven to stone	I
I spangled with gems every leaf and spray	S
As onward I passed on my noiseless way	S
And I came to thee when my work was done	T
To see how they shone in the morning sun	T
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THE NORTH WIND	U
	-
I have borne the clouds on my restless wings	V
And my sullen voice through the desert rings	V
I sent through the forest a rushing blast	W
And the foliage fled as I onward passed	W
From the desolate regions of woe and death	X
In adamant bound by my freezing breath	X
From the crystal mountains where silence reigns	Y
And nature sleeps on the sterile plains	Y
I have brought the snow from thy mighty store	E
To whiten and cover each northern shore	E
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THE EAST WIND	U
	-
I woke like a giant refreshed with sleep	Z
And lifted the waves of the troubled deep	Z
I clouded the heavens with vapours dark	A2
And rolled the tide o'er the foundering bark	A2
Then mocked in hoarse murmurs the hollow cry	L
Of the drowning wretch in his agony	O
I have leagued with the North to assert thy right	J
On the land and the wave both by day and by night	J
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THE SNOW	G
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I heard thy summons and hastened fast	W
And floated hither before the blast	W
To wave thy white banner o'er tower and town	C
O'er the level plain and the mountain brown	C
I have crowned the woods with a spotless wreath	B2
And loaded the avalanche with death	X
I have wrapped the earth in a winding sheet	C2
And Nature lies dead beneath my feet	C2
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CHORUS OF SPIRITS	D2
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All hail mighty monarch our tasks are o'er	A
Thy power is confessed on each northern shore	E
From the rock's stern brow to the rolling sea	O
The spirits of earth have bowed to thee	O
In the cradle of Nature the young Spring lies	D
With the slumber of death on her azure eyes	D
And we wander at will through the wide domain	F
Which in beauty and verdure shall flourish again	E2
When she bursts from her shroud like a sun beam forth	N
'To chase us back to the frozen North '	-
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With darkness and storms for thy panoply	O
Stern Winter what power may contend with thee	O
Thy sceptre commands both the wind and the tide	F2
And thy empire extends over regions wide	F2
With thy star gemmed crown and eagle wings	V
The strongest of nature's potent kings	V
But thy power for a season alone is lent	G2
Thou art but a ministering spirit sent	G2
By the mighty Creator of thine and thee	O
Who fills with his presence immensity	G2

Susanna Moodie

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