. At early candle light and other poems. en, cuddled snug in the ample rug, oer the snowy roads they his sweetheart eats the spicy sweets he made that day for tinkle of bells and song that swells, how gleaming miles unroll;And he tastes, so plain, the flavor again as he takes his lovers toll;For the sleigh is narrow, and one swift arrow from Cupid, the rosy scamp,Strikes man and maid from his ambuscade as they circle the sugar camp. How he smiles next day, as he toils away stirring thebubbling trough; For he must wait to know his fate till the night of thesugaring-ofi. Cup
. At early candle light and other poems. en, cuddled snug in the ample rug, oer the snowy roads they his sweetheart eats the spicy sweets he made that day for tinkle of bells and song that swells, how gleaming miles unroll;And he tastes, so plain, the flavor again as he takes his lovers toll;For the sleigh is narrow, and one swift arrow from Cupid, the rosy scamp,Strikes man and maid from his ambuscade as they circle the sugar camp. How he smiles next day, as he toils away stirring thebubbling trough; For he must wait to know his fate till the night of thesugaring-ofi. Cupid makes his bows of wood that grows in the sugar-thickets shade, And dips each shaft, clear down to the haft, in the syrupwhen t is made. So all ends right, and I say to-night, though we havesuffered and toiled, THE SUQKQ CAHP 19 We could both forget our sorrows yet in a dipper of sap we get to heaven we 11 kiss our folks, then start for a happy trampUp toward the headwaters of Paradise, just to work in the sugar THE COUNTRY ROAD
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