Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

First December Blog.

Carols.

In the bleak midwinter,
Or so the carol tells,
But times have changed
And not so bleak,
And not so many bells.

Written by Christina Rosetti,
An English Victorian gal,
Who included this poem
In Poetical Works,
Before 1872, for Regale.

Lots of carols were written
In 1800s around,
Were people more pious?
Were winters so bleak?
Was there always snow on the ground?

Or were writers just more poetic,
One hundred years or more will pass by
With wonderous things to beguile
Man, woman and boy, had little to do,
So the winters were more of a trial.

Today there are sports and cinemas,
And of course, the Internet sings
Each day we’re awake,
What pleasures we take
For enjoyment, and all of those things.

So sing well, my jolly people,
The Carols we all know so well,
The Holly and the Ivy,
Or Rudolph’s…