Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DECEMBER, by JOEL BENTON


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First Line: When the feud of hot and cold
Last Line: Which weaves this spotless shroud of snow!
Subject(s): December; Nature


WHEN the feud of hot and cold
Leaves the autumn woodlands bare;
When the year is getting old,
And flowers are dead, and keen the air;
When the crow has new concern,
And early sounds his raucuous note;
And -- where the late witch-hazels burn --
The squirrel from a chuckling throat
Tells that one larder's space is filled,
And tilts upon a towering tree;
And, valiant, quick, and keenly thrilled,
Upstarts the tiny chickadee;
When the sun's still shortening arc
Too soon night's shadows dun and gray
Brings on, and fields are drear and dark,
And summer birds have flown away, --
I feel the year's slow-beating heart,
The sky's chill prophecy I know;
And welcome the consummate art
Which weaves this spotless shroud of snow!




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