The world TRANSFORMED
UNWARMED by any sunset light
The gray day darkened into night,
A night made hoary with the swarm
And whirl-dance of the blinding storm,
As zigzag, wavering to and fro,
Crossed and recrossed the wingëd snow:
And ere the...
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Still sits the school-house by the road, Within, the master’s desk is seen, |
God called the nearest angels who dwell with Him above: “Arise,” He said, “my angels! a wail of woe and sin “My harps take up the mournful strain... |
Our fathers’ God! from out whose hand Here, where of old, by Thy design,... |
She came and stood in the Old South Church Save the mournful sackcloth about her wound, |
Unnoted as the setting of a star |
I write my name as one, Oblivion’s blankness claims Wash on, O waves of time... |
BLESSINGS on thee, little man, |
Still sits the school-house by the road, Within, the master’s desk is seen, |
From “Snow-Bound” |