Snow’s True Maiden
By Henry Penton
As Malin welcomes the heat, our world hath lost
Her powdered fields, chill, and frost
And what beauty found in snow’s gleam,
Now flows throughout watery streams.
As the sun doth thaw our cold earth.
Love hath found its blessed birth.
Swallows wake in greening trees
My air is filled with hums and bees.
Yet,
Much as love flourishes so too doth it bring
An end, fading as a youthful spring.
Such beautiful co