Bleak Weather

0:00 BLEAK WEATHER by Ella Wheeler-Wheelcox

0:04 Red Four, Liebervox.org by Theo Douglas

0:08 Seattle, Washington, May 2026

0:13 Dear Love

0:15 Where the red lilies blossom and grew

0:17 The white snows are falling

0:19 And all through the woods where I wandered

0:22 with you

0:22 The loud winds are calling

0:25 And the robin that piped to us

0:27 Tune up and tune

0:29 Nathan Oake, you remember?

0:32 Or Hilltop and Fars?

0:34 As followed to June and left us December

0:37 He has left like a friend who is true in the

0:40 sun

0:40 And false in the shadows

0:43 He has found new delights in the land where

0:46 he's gone

0:47 Greener woodlands and meadows

0:49 Let him go

0:51 What care we?

0:52 Let the snow shroud the lee

0:55 Let it drift on the heather

0:57 We could sing through it all

0:59 I have you, you have me

1:01 And we'll laugh at the weather

1:04 The old year may die

1:06 And a new year be born

1:08 That is bleaker and colder

1:10 It cannot dismay us

1:12 We dare it, we scorn

1:14 For our love makes us bolder

1:17 Ah, robin

1:19 Sing loud on your far distantly

1:22 You friend in fair weather

1:24 But here is a song sung that's fuller of glee

1:28 By two warm hearts together

1:33 End of poem