Child's Garden of Verses (Version 3)

<h2><SPAN name="WINTER-TIME" id="WINTER-TIME"></SPAN>WINTER-TIME</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Late lies the wintry sun a-bed,<br/></span> <span class="i12">A frosty, fiery sleepy-head;<br/></span> <span class="i12">Blinks but an hour or two; and then,<br/></span> <span class="i12">A blood-red orange, sets again.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Before the stars have left the skies,<br/></span> <span class="i12">At morning in the dark I rise;<br/></span> <span class="i12">And shivering in my nakedness,<br/></span> <span class="i12">By the cold candle, bathe and dress.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Close by the jolly fire I sit<br/></span> <span class="i12">To warm my frozen bones a bit;<br/></span> <span class="i12">Or with a reindeer-sled, explore<br/></span> <span class="i12">The colder countries round the door.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</SPAN></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">When to go out, my nurse doth wrap<br/></span> <span class="i12">Me in my comforter and cap;<br/></span> <span class="i12">The cold wind burns my face and blows<br/></span> <span class="i12">Its frosty pepper up my nose.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Black are my steps on silver sod;<br/></span> <span class="i12">Thick blows my frosty breath abroad;<br/></span> <span class="i12">And tree and house, and hill and lake,<br/></span> <span class="i12">Are frosted like a wedding-cake.<br/></span></div> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_076.jpg" width-obs="250" height-obs="179" alt="Illustration" /></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[78]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_077.jpg" width-obs="600" height-obs="233" alt="Illustration" /></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />