Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1912 — YULETIDE. [ARTICLE]

YULETIDE.

The wind across the snoweiad hills, A restless spirit, roves. The murmur of the frozen rills Still echoes in the groves. The stripped trees, bending to the earth. Their tale of sorrow tell; Hushed .are the sounds of recent mirth That peeled in every dell. * ''Old winter breathes along the plain Its chilling breath of snow; The billows bounding o’er the main An added fury know; The sky is frowning, gray and cold. The earth is brown and sere. Yet on each barren waste and woM The Yuletide bells ring clear.