| Show The Legend of the Winter Rose Io r l-l l I 4 The stars were were dancing gaily as as s. s she hurried up the road To Bethlehem to see the Little LittI King But in her heart beart joy labored with a melancholy l load ad What present could a shepherds shepherd's daug daughter ter bring f Upon the snowy snowy hill she paused and listened toward u glen Where she had left the huddled flock asleep A lamb cd cried d out was Answered by throaty murmur murmur then h n The shadows trembled in the silence d deep ep She th thought The Magi gave him Jars o of of incense incense- chains of gold gold gold- Jewels like white and and andred red sparks of the s sun sun n. n Jv But I have nothing nothing for his ht's tiny hands to hold Not even a lamb Iamb to frolic r for his fun t 0 More softly up the road and through an en en gate she trod Ahead the I roofed w stable lay all still Watched by a star of all the stars a mild bright eye of God The maiden faltered on the mystic hill hIlI v I T Clasping her empty fingers gazing at the gleaming snow Father who sleeps not in the midnight dim I come in shame shame shame-I I have n no great or little gift to show how My thankfulness to you my love f for r him W ft Her plea was as like a weary bird that an ocean Silence was all her ber answer for a spa space e Then overhead the air began to pulse with soft slow motion The maiden felt a warm wind in her ber face 4 1 On came the wind and a long ong throb of pinions beating slow Ab About u her ber feet in twinkling frosty showers The snow was fanned away and on the stony God hears bears us there us-there there were tipped pink-tipped shining flowers I IA y A Pluck them gentle daughter Lov Lovelier Then gems the lurking embers of f old strife Are these fair tender blossoms and far sweeter than dead myrrh Is their love-fragrance love for the Prince of Life Each blossom in her fingers was a bl blossom in her ber heart Like rivers when the ice is warmed away Her IIer blood leaped up and sparkled and she drew the doors apart And reverently entered where he be lay Carlton Culmsee Nada Culmsee-Nada Nada Utah |
