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Winter Rain In

from Ten Tinkerings by Headwind-1

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Lyrics: Swinburne. From Winter In Northumberland.

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Winter Rain In


I
Bury her deeper than any sleeper
Sweet dreams will keep her all day all night
Though sleep benumb her and time o’ercome her,
She dreams of summer and takes delight,
Dreaming and sleeping in love’s good keeping,
While rain is weeping and leaves no cling;
Winds will come bringing her comfort, and singing her
Stories and songs and good news of spring.
II
Come as you love her, come close and cover
Her white face over, and forth again
Ere sunset glances on foam that dances,
Through lowering lances of bright, white rain;
And make your play time of winter’s daytime
As if the maytime were here to sing;
As if the snowballs were soft as blow balls,
Blown in a mist from the stalk in the spring.
III
In fierce march weather white waves break tether,
And whirl together at each hand,
Like weeds uplifted, the tree trunks rifted
In spars drifted, like foam or sand,
Past swamp and sallow and reed-beds callow,
Through pool and shallow, to wind and lee,
Till, no more tongue-tied full flood and young tide
Roar down the rapids and storm the sea.

IV
Roll the strong stream of it up, to the scream of it
Wake from a dream of it children that sleep,
Seamen that fare from them forth, with a prayer for them;
Shall not God care for them, angels not keep?
Spare not the surges thy stormy scourges;
Spare us the dirges of wives that weep
Turn back the waves for us, dig no fresh graves for us,
Wind in the manifold gulfs of the deep.

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from Ten Tinkerings, track released July 15, 2009

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Marine Artwork By Kind Permission Of My Good Friend Barry Mason Seaton, Devon's Foremost Marine Artist.

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