id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 20226 Whittier, John Greenleaf Snow-Bound A Winter Idyll .txt text/plain 5265 432 91 In the present edition of "Snow-Bound," the Illustrations are Divine light of the Sun, but also by our common VVood Fire: and Hides hills and woods, the river and the heaven, The coming of the snow-storm told. The gray day darkened into night, The bridle post an old man sat The old horse thrust his long head out, Curled over woods of snow-hung oak. Its blown snows flashing cold and keen, Blow high, blow low, not all its snow Of life and love, to still live on! We heard the tales of witchcraft old, Of simple life and country ways,) Old hearths grew wide to give us room; With dark eyes full of love's content. Happy the snow-locked homes wherein Felt the light sifted snow-flakes fall. When hearts are light and life is new; The wise old Doctor went his round, Green hills of life that slope to death, ./cache/20226.txt ./txt/20226.txt