Take from Winter Just a Bit of Hope

Music: Concerto in C Major for Oboe and Orchestra--andante.
By Antonio Vivaldi.
Performed by the Advent Chamber Orchestra at the Free Music Archive
under an Attribution-Share Alike license.

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Take from winter just a bit of hope
In reckoning the blessedness of life,
Nor wonder why the wind, in bitter flight,
Around our reasoned corners wailing goes.

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