Day 5 – In wane
“The year’s in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning!”~ Thomas Hood
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“The year’s in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning!”~ Thomas Hood
“Pale January layIn its cradle day by dayDead or living, hard to say.” ~ Alfred Austin
“The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.” ~ Luc de Clapiers
Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall. ~ Alice Cary
“Cold indeed, and labor lost:Then farewell heat, and welcome frost!” ~ William Shakespeare
“The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.” ~ John J. Geddes
“There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes […]
It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.~ John Burroughs