Child Songs of Cheer

<h2><SPAN name="THE_FROSTED_PANE" id="THE_FROSTED_PANE"></SPAN>THE FROSTED PANE</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i2">When I wakened, very early,<br/></span> <span class="i2">All my window-pane was pearly<br/></span> <span class="i0">With a sparkling little picture traced in lines of shining white;<br/></span> <span class="i2">Some magician with a gleaming<br/></span> <span class="i2">Frosty brush, while I was dreaming,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Must have come and by the starlight worked through all the quiet night.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i2">He had painted frosty people,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And a frosty church and steeple,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And a frosty bridge and river tumbling over frosty rocks;<br/></span> <span class="i2">Frosty mountain peaks that glimmered,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And fine frosty ferns that shimmered,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And a frosty little pasture full of frosty little flocks.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[95]</SPAN></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i2">It was all touched in so lightly<br/></span> <span class="i2">And it glittered, oh, so whitely,<br/></span> <span class="i0">That I gazed and gazed in wonder at the lovely painted pane;<br/></span> <span class="i2">Then the sun rose high and higher<br/></span> <span class="i2">With his wand of golden fire<br/></span> <span class="i0">Till, alas, my picture vanished and I looked for it in vain!<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />