MISCELLANEOUS POEMS

By Charles Sangster


 

CANADIAN SLEIGH SONG.


 


Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
     Merrily, merrily, O,
Chime the tuneful sleigh bells,
     Singing to the snow;
Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,

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     Merrily, merrily, O,
Laughs the dimpled Maiden,
     Chatting to her beau. [Page 118]

Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
     Merrily, merrily, O,

10
 

What is glorious Winter
     Without frost and snow?
Time may cast a shadow
     O’er us as we go,
But let us, like the sleigh bells,

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     Sing, Merrily, Merrily, O.

Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
     Merrily, Merrily, O,
Life is but a sleigh-drive
     Through the frost and snow;

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Ever are we learning
     This one truth as we go:
All sadness without sunlight
     Is like Winter without snow. [Page 119]