SPRING COMING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1592, 29 July 1916, Page 4

SPRING COMING.

(By Walt Mason)

The winter winls and slings its snow, the wind is keen and frost- is king. Cheer up, for soon will blow the soft and balmy airs of spring. Your whiskers now are frozen slid, it is a bleek and bitter day; your ears are cold, but what’s the did. “l Before yon know it, ’twill be May. The tempest batters at the door, the night wind wails a disma l tune, but in three shakes, or maybe four, you’ll wade around knee-deep in dune. And thus it is with every grief; it hurls our corns, but soon

it’s sped; the darkest, coldest, night is brief, and sunshine glitters just ahead. My feet are frozen hard to-night, and yet 1 am a cheerful scout; I know that spring will come all right, and April winds will thaw them out. It’s true the wintertime is tilled with things that bring my spirit care; but in the spring the birds will build their nests among my heard and hair. Let winter roar and do its ivorst, the gentle spring will soon be here, when winter grief s like bubbles burst, and in the azure disappear.