In a chamber setting of five wonderful poems by David McCord we visit each of the seasons as seen through a child's eyes. The cycle begins with I. Christmas Eve, full of that excited energy and anticipation of what may or may not appear in the stocking come next morning. II. Triolet finds the informer child insistently reporting that now spring, "The birds in the feeder are fighting again!" In III. The Star in the Pail, fetching water on a clear summer evening is a magical opportunity for the stars above, "as thickly sown As wheat across the prairie," to shimmer gently in the pail we carry below. As the leaves begin to turn and fall, a jack-o'-latern slowly takes on it's delightfully frightening form in the spooky and surprising IV. Mr. Macklin's Jack o'Lantern. Finishing the cycle a year older and wiser with V. Come Christmas, we see the stars atop Christmas trees as symbols of the "one star in this same big sky so long ago"— and the snow outside a gentle reminder of God, "in that white world of his."

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