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ghizela rowe - winter stores by charlotte bronte lyrics

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we take from life one little share
and say that this shall be
a sp+ce, redeemed from toil and care
from tears and sadness free

and, haply, death unstrings his bow
and sorrow stands apart
and, for a little while, we know
the sunshine of the heart

existence seems a summer eve
warm, soft, and full of peace;
our free, unfettered feelings give
the soul its full release

a moment, then, it takes the power
to call up thoughts that throw
around that charmed and hallowed hour
this life’s divinest glow

but time, though viewlessly it flies
and slowly, will not stay;
alike, through clear and clouded skies
it cleaves its silent way

alike the bitter cup of grief
alike the draught of bliss
its progress leaves but moment brief
for baffled lips to kiss
the sparkling draught is dried away
the hour of rest is gone
and urgent voices, round us, say
“ho, lingerer, hasten on!”

and has the soul, then, only gained
from this brief time of ease
a moment’s rest, when overstrained
one hurried glimpse of peace?

no; while the sun shone kindly o’er us
and flowers bloomed round our feet, —
while many a bud of joy before us
unclosed its petals sweet, —

an unseen work within was plying;
like honey+seeking bee
from flower to flower, unwearied, flying
laboured one faculty, —

thoughtful for winter’s future sorrow
its gloom and scarcity;
prescient to+day of want to+morrow
toiled quiet memory

’tis she that from each transient pleasure
extracts a lasting good;
’tis she that finds, in summer, treasure
to serve for winter’s food
and when youth’s summer day is vanished
and age brings winter’s stress
her stores, with h++rded sweets replenished
life’s evening hours will bless

- ghizela rowe lyrics

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