Rain and Roses

<h2><SPAN name="THROUGH_LOVING_EYES" id="THROUGH_LOVING_EYES"></SPAN>Through Loving Eyes</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="ig"><span class="letra">L</span>IKE a careless child in the drifts it stood<br/></span> <span class="ih">Against the darkness of the wood,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Even the path was not cut through<br/></span> <span class="i0">Up to the door it led you to.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Beauty untarnished, but never a sound<br/></span> <span class="i0">Save for the whispering trees around.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Its shining eyes on the cold world shone<br/></span> <span class="i0">Warm and bright from its snowy comb.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Cheer was the word the blue fume wrote<br/></span> <span class="i0">As it cleared itself from the chimney’s throat.<br/></span> <span class="i0">The drifts that lay on the tent like sheds<br/></span> <span class="i0">Were like the covers of untouched beds.<br/></span> <span class="i0">A great white garment of snow and frost<br/></span> <span class="i0">Was laid on the fence, but the hedge was lost.<br/></span> <span class="i0">A-while away the home garden park<br/></span> <span class="i0">Divides itself from the woods soft dark.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Dear God I said, you had meant to please<br/></span> <span class="i0">When giving man such gifts as these.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_18" id="page_18">{18}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />