Winter has a joy for me

The words

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   Stanza 1. Winter has a joy for me,While the Savior’s charms I read,Lowly, meek, from blemish free,In the snow–drop’s pensive head.

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   Stanza 2. Spring returns, and brings alongLife–invigorating suns:Hark! the turtle’s plaintive song,Seems to speak his dying groans!

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   Stanza 3. Summer has a thousand charms,All expressive of his worth;’Tis his sun that lights and warms,His the air that cools the earth.

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   Stanza 4. What, has autumn left to sayNothing, of a Savior’s grace?Yes, the beams of milder dayTell me of his smiling face.

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   Stanza 5. Light appears with early dawnWhile the sun makes haste to rise,See his bleeding beauties, drawnOn the blushes of the skies.

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   Stanza 6. Evening, with a silent pace,Slowly moving in the west,Shows an emblem of his grace,Points to an eternal rest.

Olney Hymns (1779), Book 3, Hymn 83. William Cowper. Public domain. CCEL transcription with modernized spelling. www.praylock.com/olney-hymns/3-83