. Birds and flowers, or, Lays and lyrics of rural life . OLD-FASHIONED WINTER. FiVE-AND-TWENTY years ago,Winter was a time of and snow, I well remember,Were the emblems of , in one nights time there fellSnow wliich made impassable OLD-FASHIONED WINTER. 141 Roads and streets, until the spadeTo every house a path had the drifted snows were seen,Fit palace for a vaulted roof and porticoesSpangled oer with diamond we heard of travellers wear}%On the commons wide and dreary,—Knowing not which way to go,—Dying in the pathless snow. Then t

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. Birds and flowers, or, Lays and lyrics of rural life . OLD-FASHIONED WINTER. FiVE-AND-TWENTY years ago,Winter was a time of and snow, I well remember,Were the emblems of , in one nights time there fellSnow wliich made impassable OLD-FASHIONED WINTER. 141 Roads and streets, until the spadeTo every house a path had the drifted snows were seen,Fit palace for a vaulted roof and porticoesSpangled oer with diamond we heard of travellers wear}%On the commons wide and dreary,—Knowing not which way to go,—Dying in the pathless snow. Then the boys at snow-ball played, And snow-men and monsters made ; Or a piled-up, strong snow-wall, Pierced with arches wide and tall; Or in orchards, all a-row, Scooped out cottages of snow. Then the ponds and streams were frozen, And the sliding-places chosen. And no word the boys could say But of sliding all the day. Then on pavements you might seeSawdust scattered carefully, 142 OLD-FASHIONED WINTER. And good people, staff in hand,Shod with strips o

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