Dartmouth Winter-Song

by Richard Hovey

Ho, a song by the fire! (Pass the pipes, fill the bowl!) Ho, a song by the fire! —With a skoal!… For the wolf wind is whining in the doorways, And the snow drifts deep along the road, And the ice-gnomes are marching from their Norways, And the great white cold walks abroad. (Boo-oo-o! pass the bowl!)     For here by the fire     We defy frost and storm.     Ha, ha! we are warm     And we have our hearts’ desire;     For here ’s four good fellows     And the beechwood and the bellows,     And the cup is at the lip     In the pledge of fellowship.             Skoal!

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