Show to ot With Utah Poets REBUFFED King Winter reigned on the mountain mountain moun moun- tain crest crestIn crestIn crestIn In his royal ci ermine mine gown Bright jewels adorned his broad white breast And gleamed from his dazzling crown Like prickly points of fire s so bright r They danced danced through the livelong day Blinding Winding the eyes of the earthly mite Who chanced chance l to pass his way He Ile covered the ground with his regal train Chilled the trees hee with his icy breath The flowers hid in the earth again In the seeming sleep of death lie He loved a maid of a gypsy race And all th the wide world defied But nut when he kissed her radiant face lace Dear Autumn dropped dropp d and died Then he reigned alone in his white white world A silent and somber king Till a tethered throat like a courtly herald Told Told the approach of Princess Spring Her lies satin sulin robes of green le n and white while Were like perfumed precious lace Her rippling laugh anti antl st step p so light Gave Cave charm to hr queenly grace She wore white plumes upon her head And a girdle of yellow ellow gold The flowers awoke at her bel gentle tread And tender leaves did unfold The king would woo by the silver moon As she stood on the valleys valley's rim But she swept him out with a bluster ing broom For she would wold have none of him Minnie J. J Hardy Salt Lake City Utah oJ n |