I sing this song. I learned it from Ian Bell, who got it from a 19th c. Mennonite hymnal. I sing a different last verse, written by Junetta Chenard, a Quaker from the Niagara region. She didn't like the original, and wrote Winter's sleep does strength revive Budding hopes again alive There's a YouTube video, so you can hear the tune. I sang this at my 25th college reunion. Five years later, at our 30th, a classmate remembered it and asked to hear it again. I've sung it at every reunion since then.
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