Deep Sleeps the Winter

by Cicely Mary Barker

Deep sleeps the winter,
Cold, wet, and grey;
Surely all the world is dead;
Spring is far away.
Wait! the world shall waken;
It is not dead, for lo,
The Fair Maids of February
Stand in the snow!


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Deep Sleeps the Winter

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