...; To-whit, to-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. SHAKESPEARE. THE SNOW-STORM. ancy fix ; Yet the moment she is kind I forgive her...uncoiifined wing» Hovers within my gates, And my divine north-wind's masonry. Out of an unseen quarry, evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves...

...his nail, And Tom bears logs into the h.ill, And milk comes frozen home in pail ; " or when, — " Announced by all the trumpets of the sky Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the ticlds, Seems nowhere to alight. The whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heavens,...

...(despite the archaism of a dissyllabic fire), which he has chosen for his epigraph, tell us, too, hpw the " Housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy -of storm." They are all in a tale. It is always the tristis Hiems of Virgil. Catch one of them having a kind word...

...to-who, a merry note. While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. SHAKESPEARE. THE SNOW-STORM. ANNOUNCED Ъу / friendjs shut out, the housemates sit Around tl¡," radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy...

...so also this our Fire of Wood doth the same." — COR. AGRIPPA, Occult Philosophy, Bookl. ch. v. " Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives...fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm." EMERSON. THE sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave...

...outside •'November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh." There is Emerson's indoor view of a snow-storm: " Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives...veils the farm-house at the garden's end. The sled and traveler stopped, ihc courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the house-mates sit Around the...

...so also this our Fire of Wood doth the same." — COB. AGRIPPA, Occult Philosophy ,BookI. ch. V. " Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives...and woods, the river and the heaven And veils the farm-houso at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends...

...; To-whit, to-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. SHAKESPEARE. THE SNOW-STORM. day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridall of the...The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou mu whiter! air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm-house at the garden's...

...draught The great throat of the chimney laughed." There is also Emerson's indoor view of a snow-storm : " Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives...heaven, And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end. The slfcd and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the house-mates sit...

...heard it read a few years ago, in the early autumn when the leaves were just beginning to turn : — Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow; and, driving o'er the fields. Seen B nowhere to alight; the whitened nir Hides hills and woods, the river and the heiiven, And veils...