Speaker 1: Section twenty of Birds and All Nature, Volume seven, number two,
Speaker 1: February nineteen hundred, Recorded for Librivaux dot Org by Tabarish
Speaker 1: February February Fortnight's too briefest of the months? Are you
Speaker 1: of the winter's children? Last? Why do you go by
Speaker 1: so fast? Is it not a little strange? Once in
Speaker 1: four years you should change that the sun should shine
Speaker 1: and give you another day to live. Maybe this has
Speaker 1: only done since you are the smallest one. So I
Speaker 1: make the shortest rhyme for you as befits your time.
Speaker 1: You're the baby of the year, and to me you're
Speaker 1: very dear, just because you bring the line. Will you
Speaker 1: be my valentine? Frank Dempster Sherman. The snow had begun,
Speaker 1: and the gloaming and busily all the night had been heaping,
Speaker 1: filled and highway, with the silence deep and white, Every
Speaker 1: pine and fir and hemlock bore a mind to deer
Speaker 1: for an earl, and the poorest twig on the elm
Speaker 1: tree was ridged inch deep with pearl from sheds. New
Speaker 1: roofed with carrara came shantically as muffled crow. The stiff
Speaker 1: rails were softened to swan's down and still fluttered down
Speaker 1: the snow Lowell end of Section twenty. This recording is
Speaker 1: in the public domain.