A Painted Pine
At Christmastime when I was little, I woke up in the mornings to Gene Autry on the radio singing Here Comes Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Decembers were cold in Kansas. Often, we woke with ice
’Tis Moonlight, Summer Moonlight
’Tis moonlight, summer moonlight, All soft and still and fair— The solemn hour of midnight Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere. But most where trees are sending Their breezy boughs on high, Or stooping low are lending A shelter from the sky. And there
