...while the low oak shrubs rustled their sober brown leaves and shivered at the approach of winter. Now "We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. The old, familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes ; A smooth white mound the brush heap showed,...

...night long the storm roared on : The morning broke without a sun ; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could...above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow! 5. The old familiar sights of ours Took marvelous shapes; strange domes and towers Hose up where sty...

...night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun: And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. 4. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament; No cloud above, no earth below,—...

...every familiar object buried out of sight beneath the congealed and hoary breath of the storm God. " No cloud above, no earth below, A universe of sky and snow." But neither heated nor frozen " terms" ordinarily last many days at a time. Changes are sudden and...

...fell ; SNOW BOUND. And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing wo could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent...sky and snow ! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strange domes and | towere Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood, Or garden-wall,...

...white angelic days we have in winter, such as Whittier has so well described in these lines : — " Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of...above, no earth below, A universe of sky and snow." On such days my spirit gets snow blind ; all things take on the same color, or no color ; my thought...

...In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could...call our own. / Around the glistening wonder bent 1 The blue walls of the firmament, • f No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and...

...scaffold's pole of birch, The cock his crested helmet bent And down his querulous challenge sent. Unwarned by any sunset light The gray day darkened into night,...sky and snow ! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes; strange domes and towers Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood, Or garden-wall, or...

...In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second morning shone/ We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could...sky and snow ! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes; strangedomet and towers Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood. Or garden wall, or...

...In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could...sky and snow ! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes; strange domes and towers Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood, Or garden-wall, or...