11I never shall love the snow againSince Maurice died:With corniced drift it blocked the lane,And sheeted in a desolate plainThe country side.The trees with silvery rime bedightTheir branches bare.By day no sun appeared; by nightThe hidden moon shed thievish lightIn the misty air.We fed the birds that flew aroundIn flocks to be fed:No shelter in holly or brake they found.The speckled thrush on the frozen groundLay frozen and dead.We skated on stream and pond; we cutThe crinching snowTo Doric temple or Arctic hut;We laughed and sang at nightfall, shutBy the fireside glow.Yet grudged we our keen delights beforeMaurice should come.We said, In-door or out-of-doorWe shall love life for a month or more,When he is home.They brought him home; ’twas two days lateFor Christmas day:Wrapped in white, in solemn state,A flower in his hand, all still and straightOur Maurice lay.And two days ere the year outgaveWe laid him low.The best of us truly were not brave,When we laid Maurice down in his graveUnder the snow.
11I never shall love the snow againSince Maurice died:With corniced drift it blocked the lane,And sheeted in a desolate plainThe country side.The trees with silvery rime bedightTheir branches bare.By day no sun appeared; by nightThe hidden moon shed thievish lightIn the misty air.We fed the birds that flew aroundIn flocks to be fed:No shelter in holly or brake they found.The speckled thrush on the frozen groundLay frozen and dead.We skated on stream and pond; we cutThe crinching snowTo Doric temple or Arctic hut;We laughed and sang at nightfall, shutBy the fireside glow.Yet grudged we our keen delights beforeMaurice should come.We said, In-door or out-of-doorWe shall love life for a month or more,When he is home.They brought him home; ’twas two days lateFor Christmas day:Wrapped in white, in solemn state,A flower in his hand, all still and straightOur Maurice lay.And two days ere the year outgaveWe laid him low.The best of us truly were not brave,When we laid Maurice down in his graveUnder the snow.
I never shall love the snow againSince Maurice died:With corniced drift it blocked the lane,And sheeted in a desolate plainThe country side.The trees with silvery rime bedightTheir branches bare.By day no sun appeared; by nightThe hidden moon shed thievish lightIn the misty air.We fed the birds that flew aroundIn flocks to be fed:No shelter in holly or brake they found.The speckled thrush on the frozen groundLay frozen and dead.We skated on stream and pond; we cutThe crinching snowTo Doric temple or Arctic hut;We laughed and sang at nightfall, shutBy the fireside glow.Yet grudged we our keen delights beforeMaurice should come.We said, In-door or out-of-doorWe shall love life for a month or more,When he is home.They brought him home; ’twas two days lateFor Christmas day:Wrapped in white, in solemn state,A flower in his hand, all still and straightOur Maurice lay.And two days ere the year outgaveWe laid him low.The best of us truly were not brave,When we laid Maurice down in his graveUnder the snow.
I never shall love the snow againSince Maurice died:With corniced drift it blocked the lane,And sheeted in a desolate plainThe country side.The trees with silvery rime bedightTheir branches bare.By day no sun appeared; by nightThe hidden moon shed thievish lightIn the misty air.We fed the birds that flew aroundIn flocks to be fed:No shelter in holly or brake they found.The speckled thrush on the frozen groundLay frozen and dead.We skated on stream and pond; we cutThe crinching snowTo Doric temple or Arctic hut;We laughed and sang at nightfall, shutBy the fireside glow.Yet grudged we our keen delights beforeMaurice should come.We said, In-door or out-of-doorWe shall love life for a month or more,When he is home.They brought him home; ’twas two days lateFor Christmas day:Wrapped in white, in solemn state,A flower in his hand, all still and straightOur Maurice lay.And two days ere the year outgaveWe laid him low.The best of us truly were not brave,When we laid Maurice down in his graveUnder the snow.
I never shall love the snow againSince Maurice died:With corniced drift it blocked the lane,And sheeted in a desolate plainThe country side.
I never shall love the snow again
Since Maurice died:
With corniced drift it blocked the lane,
And sheeted in a desolate plain
The country side.
The trees with silvery rime bedightTheir branches bare.By day no sun appeared; by nightThe hidden moon shed thievish lightIn the misty air.
The trees with silvery rime bedight
Their branches bare.
By day no sun appeared; by night
The hidden moon shed thievish light
In the misty air.
We fed the birds that flew aroundIn flocks to be fed:No shelter in holly or brake they found.The speckled thrush on the frozen groundLay frozen and dead.
We fed the birds that flew around
In flocks to be fed:
No shelter in holly or brake they found.
The speckled thrush on the frozen ground
Lay frozen and dead.
We skated on stream and pond; we cutThe crinching snowTo Doric temple or Arctic hut;We laughed and sang at nightfall, shutBy the fireside glow.
We skated on stream and pond; we cut
The crinching snow
To Doric temple or Arctic hut;
We laughed and sang at nightfall, shut
By the fireside glow.
Yet grudged we our keen delights beforeMaurice should come.We said, In-door or out-of-doorWe shall love life for a month or more,When he is home.
Yet grudged we our keen delights before
Maurice should come.
We said, In-door or out-of-door
We shall love life for a month or more,
When he is home.
They brought him home; ’twas two days lateFor Christmas day:Wrapped in white, in solemn state,A flower in his hand, all still and straightOur Maurice lay.
They brought him home; ’twas two days late
For Christmas day:
Wrapped in white, in solemn state,
A flower in his hand, all still and straight
Our Maurice lay.
And two days ere the year outgaveWe laid him low.The best of us truly were not brave,When we laid Maurice down in his graveUnder the snow.
And two days ere the year outgave
We laid him low.
The best of us truly were not brave,
When we laid Maurice down in his grave
Under the snow.