January

Music: The Cuckoo
Sequenced by Barry Taylor

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January waits, unsentimental, Again born into beauty, cruel and kind. Nor cold nor darkness fools the wily child, Unweeping in a brutal wind and wild, As the Earth turns passionless and blind. Rejoicing in her birth, she dons the mantle, Yearning to recall what lies behind.