Shout now!  The months with loud acclaim,
  Take up the cry and send it forth;
    May breathing sweet her Spring perfumes,
      November thundering from the North.
        With hands upraised, as with one voice,
          They join their notes in grand accord;
            Hail to December!  say they all,
              It gave to Earth our Christ the Lord!
 — J.K. Hoyt
  December