"I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December
A magical thing
And sweet to remember
We are nearer to Spring
Than we were in September
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December."
1860-1935
"I Heard a Bird Sing"
Oliver Herford (December 2, 1860 to July 5th, 1935) was an Anglo-American writer, artist and illustrator. He was born in Sheffield, England to Rev. Brooke Herford and Hannah Hankinson Herford. Oliver's father, Brooke, was a Unitarian minister who moved the family to Chicago in 1876, and to Boston in 1882.
