Fire-Lit Face



O Time and Change!---with hair as gray
As my sire's that winter day,
How strange it seems, with so much gone
Of life and love, to still live on!
Ah, brother! only I and thou
Are left of all that circle now,--
The dear home faces whereupon
That fitful firelight paled and shone.

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







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