No shadow today for ol’ Blackberry Ben…
There’s hope for an end to the snows.
There’s hope in the rain and the fog and the ice
That winter will give up its woes.
“This funny”, he says, “that six weeks of the cold
Does on my ol’ shadow depend…
And six weeks of snow, ice, and wintery mix
will come before winter shall end.
“The first day of spring, in case you didn’t know,
Is more than six weeks from today,
But I say that hope in my shadow is vain:
‘Tis weather or not anyway!”
