Yellow Nineties 2.0 The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal, Part IV.—Winter 1896-7 <editor>Lorraine Janzen Kooistra</editor> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <p> <date>2019</date> </p> </editionStmt> <publicationStmt> <idno>EGV4_9po</idno> <publisher>Yellow Nineties 2.0</publisher> <pubPlace>Ryerson University Centre for Digtial Humanities</pubPlace> <address> <addrLine>English Department</addrLine> <addrLine>350 Victoria Street,</addrLine> <addrLine>Toronto ON,</addrLine> <addrLine>M5B 2K3</addrLine> <addrLine>Canada</addrLine> </address> <availability> <p>Usable according to the Creative Commons License <ref target="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike</ref>.</p> </availability> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <biblStruct> <monogr> <editor> </editor> <author>Rosa Mulholland</author> <title>Winter Patrick Geddes and Colleagues Edinburgh T. Fisher Unwin London Spring 1896 Mulholland, Rosa. "Winter." The Evergreen; A Northern Seasonal, vol. 4, Winter 1896-7, pp. 28-29. Evergreen Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2016-2018. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019. https://1890s.ca/egv4_mulholland_winter/

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                       Winter
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THIS is no weakling pale Driven before the gale, A strong one he, as giant Ophero Who bore the wayfarer upon his shoulder, His shoulder mighty as a mountain boulder, And from happy shore to shore Carried him safely o'er The turgid torrent, even so Doth sturdy winter come and go, To cross a strait, And landing them where they may run To overtake the sun. The bridge of his great arm Rescueth from harm, His freezing grip Warmeth the blood, The kiss of his cold lip Is good For stinging vital sparks to fire, And wholesome in a frail world is his despotic ire. 29 Winter, with limbs bare and brown, A furred skin on his shoulders thrown, Driving the gales he hath come swiftly down Behind the sea-gulls that have landward flown: Music from his mouth Blowing, north to south, A leash of whirlwinds in each ruthless hand To let loose o'er sea and land. Good ships, fear ye him When days are short and dim, Demons of the air, All baleful things and grim, Of him beware, The purifier, Of him, the thurifer With thurible of frost and fire, Scattering the seedlings of a white desire As swift he goes Amid his frosts and snows, Keen of eye and strong of limb, Cleansing the world with righteous wrath no poison           can withstand. His dark head white starred with frost Moves amid the racked and tost Boughs of the disgracéd trees, Suffering mysterious penalties For sins of which the legend is long lost, For he hath them in ward And doth their secret guard, He hath stripped them of the royal cover Summer gave When each brave Tree of the forest was her lover, And the gold Flung to them by autumn's grace 30 He will take and hold Down in a dark place, For he hath got the key Of the earth's treasury. Hid within the deeps Of Nature, where she keeps In long unconsciousness her darling rose, The pear that golden grows When the sun hath found it With reddening leaves around it, Hath with delight caressed it And for sweet uses blessed it. Far down in the darkness where the seed sleeps, And into which the long rain weeps and creeps, Doth winter hoard up gems, Coronals and diadems For beauteous daughters that will yet be born On many a radiant morn Winter will never see When the queen Summer shall Hold her high festival, Ruling by love a raptured world on flowery hill and lea. When the ascending sun Signalleth his race is run, Whither goeth he? Folding up his tent of snow, Taking the mountain tranquilly? Where? Lifting his bugle once to fling On the air A silver call to waken Spring ? Doth he straightway go Out amid the stars from yonder peak, Still offering his service to the weak 31 In spheres we do not know, Where things faint to death, Languish for his ice-cold breath Bringing vigour to their veins? With his hand upon the reins Of the storm-wind he will come Back to us when woods are dumb, When our summer glory Is departed, when the story Of the nightingale is told, And no more is autumn gold, In the misty morn We shall hear his lusty horn Blowing, and our eyes see fain Ice-tents glittering in the plain. Then shall hearts be glad, and say The roses have another day To live, for lo, the strong one's at his mighty work again!

                                ROSA MULHOLLAND.