Based on a poem of the same title
with permission from Alan S. Jeeves.
Tune: Wolvercote
(one tune to \'O Jesus, I have promised\')
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Just as the year is ending
As winter snows the leaves
The autumn glow pretending
The winter chill deceives
As squirrels start defending
Their caches underground
December\'s shivers pending
And swallows southward bound
The cool of day is blending
It frosts the forest floor
Into the sunset tending
It sooner than before
The boughs of treetops bending
As gale race through their form
They spiralling and wending
Propelled by winter\'s storm
And so the nightfall sending
As shadows shade the sky
The cool of night and rending
The fair of day awry
With winter\'s shroud descending
To cause the season\'s drear
Just as the year is ending
The closing of the year