THE BIRD OF POPULAR SONG
1872
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
THE BIRD OF POPULAR SONG
by Hans Christian Andersen
IT is winter-time. The earth wears a snowy garment, and looks like
marble hewn out of the rock; the air is bright and clear; the wind
is sharp as a well-tempered sword, and the trees stand like branches
of white coral or blooming almond twigs, and here it is keen as on ...