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The Dumb Can Sing!

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Apr 10, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 15.

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The Dumb Can Sing!

By Helen Adair

HELEN ADAIR
The dumb, sad spirit of the year has been cast out! A joyful sprite now fills the earth with his glad shout. Not satisfied with songs that he himself can sing, He seizes children, birds, and fowls, and everything, And teaches them to join him in his glad refrain. He clothes him in his glorious, shimmering robes again, And decks himself with diamonds, emeralds, and pearls; Like conquering hero, silken banners he unfurls, And scatters gifts among the crowds that throng his way; His strength is so renewed he works both night and day; His transformation is so great and so complete, Like Jacob’s name, his name is changed to one more meet: It rhymes with happy sounds—like wing, and sing, and ring— We call him now, instead of Winter, gladsome Spring!