Volume 2 — WINTER—A SONG.
Reading edition
THE WORDS AND MUSIC COMPOSED FOR MERRY’S MUSEUM.
“Tell me what does winter mean!” ’Tis a drea-ry change of scene— When the meadow yields its bloom, And the blo-soms seek their tomb. Winter is the time of storms, When the cloud in angry forms, O’er the land in terror sweeps, And the sighing forest weeps. ’Tis the funeral time of flowers, Withered in their lovely bowers; While the zephyr sings in grief, O’er each shrivelled stem and leaf. ’Tis the dreary time of snow, Falling chill on all below, As a winding-sheet it weaves O’er the graves of myriad leaves. Winter is a time of tears, For the poor, in youth or years,— Where the storm drives keenly in, And the blanket’s brief and thin. Winter is the time of wreck, When the billow cleaves the deck, And the mariners go down Where the battling surges frown.
Transcriber’s Note:
This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged unless indicated below. Obsolete and alternative spellings were left unchanged. Misspelled words were not corrected.
One Footnote was moved to the end of the chapter. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, or partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate letters at line endings or page breaks were removed. Quotation marks were adjusted to common usage. Page numbers in the Table of Contents were corrected to match book pages.
Links to audio files were added for music. The music files are the music transcriber’s interpretation of the printed notation and are placed in the public domain. At the time of this writing, music file links will not work in mobile e-book formats like epub or Kindle/mobi. Users who are reading the e-book in one of these formats can listen to the music or download music files in the HTML version. Lyrics to musical scores are presented as poetry following the illustration of the music.