Happy Solstice

May you all have a wonderful day...a day filled with love, peace, and joy.

Midwinter

The sad earth cowers beneath the snow

That wraps her like a shroud.

Around the house the bleak winds go

With wailing shrill and loud.

But soft and low my heart doth sing:

"I know, I know--

After each Winter comes a Spring,

When roses blow!!

What time my soul in sadness lay

Compassed by shadows drear,

When gladness seemed so far away

And grief so near--so near;

Still soft and how my heart would sing:

"I know, I know--

That after sorrow there comes a morrow

With joy aglow."

--by Alice Williams Brotherton (1848-1930)