STILLNESS MARIEVE MacGREGOR

Oh, sweet stillness

That quivers in the echo Of a frozen night

How you shimmer so In the pale awe

Of the moon

Align the stars

On your breath

Hold them ‘gainst Their twinkling pride And turn their eyes From heaven

Glitter the snow

To blind us softly

The billow of hills

Crest gently o’er the earth As rise and exhale

Of child in slumber —

Cradle we safe

In warm serenity

So swayed on fingertips Of pallid ice

Oh, sweet stillness

Of a frozen night