Baffled Rage



Shut in from all the world without,
We sat the clean-winged hearth about,
Content to let the north-wind roar
In baffled rage at pane and door,
While the red logs before us beat
The frost-line back with tropic heat;

-John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 - 1892),
Snow-Bound; A Winter Idyl







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