 THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with...  The School Journal - Page 1141895Full view - About this book
 | 1850 - 642 pages
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl. From sheds new roofed with... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 pages
...gloaming, And busily all the night, Had been heaping field and highway, With a silence deep and white. Every pine, and fir, and hemlock, Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree, Was ridged inch deep with pearl. From sheds new roofed... | |
 | 1853 - 516 pages
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. " Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Wa« ridged inch-deep with pearl. -Frua« kWds, B*w-roofcd... | |
 | 1853 - 442 pages
...gloaming, And busily all the night, Had been heaping field and highway, With a silence deep and white. Every pine, and fir, and hemlock, Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree, Was ridged inch deep with pearl. From sheds new roofed... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1855 - 608 pages
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence dead and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock, Wore ermine too dear for an earl ; And the poorest twig on the elm tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl. From sheds, new-roofed... | |
 | 1858 - 158 pages
...if in quiet homage to the Power that silently clothed the earth in such new and wonderful grace. " Every pine and fir and hemlock, Wore ermine too dear for an earl ; And the smallest branch of the elm-tree, Was fringed inch-deep with pearl." And now a heavier... | |
 | 1858 - 394 pages
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl; And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl. From sheds, new roofed... | |
 | 1859 - 802 pages
...gloaming And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a Bilence deep and white. Every pine, and fir, and hemlock, Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm tree Was fringed inch deep with pearl. From sheds, now roofed... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl. From sheds, new roofed... | |
 | 1861 - 228 pages
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine, and fir, and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, From sheds, new roofed with Carrara, Came Chanticleer's muffled crow, The rails were softened... | |
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