Let Us Not Be Dismayed Poem by Paul Reed

Let us not be dismayed
By the wintery things displayed
Whilst rigours and hardships abound
Beauty can still astound
Us with it's ravishing cloak of gifts
That optimism and spirits lifts
As we cast a mean eye aglare
Across the frozen meadows stare
The cold dew that has hardened to frost
Melts as if the Summer did accost
And leaven the burden of bare twig and branch
Of whitened fence and railings blanched
To restore in our private minds review
Glorious flower and skylark anew