Anson Bagley performs Dickon's monologue from Secret Garden, moving from winter's darkness to spring's arrival. He uses vivid commands to describe melting ice and a rising sun as metaphors for renewal, ending with a declaration of love that ties seasonal rebirth to emotional awakening.
Winter's deep and fright, when dark all there are to see Spring is born, come the day I say And you'll be here to see it Stand and breathe it all the day Stop and feel it! Stop and hear it! Spray, I say! And now the sun is climbing high, rising fast on fire, burning down through the gloom of the day, I say. The sun's for the doom of the winter's reign, I say. You must return, come the May, say I, and you'll be And we let it snow, and we let it spring, I say. I say, be gone, ye howling gales, be off your frosty moans, all of your solid streams begin to thaw. Melt the waterfalls, part the frozen winter walls. See, see now it starts to. And now the mist has lifted high and bright the way, rolling clear to us below. And may I say, the storm will come by and creep the sky, so the sun will shine. I love you.
