StoryTitle("caps", "Old Winter") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(44, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Old Winter sad, in snow yclad, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Is making a doleful din;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But let him howl till he crack his jowl, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We will not let him in.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ay, let him lift from the billowy drift ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His hoary, haggard form,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And scowling stand, with his wrinkled hand ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Outstretching to the storm.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And let his weird and sleety beard ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Stream loose upon the blast,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, rustling, chime to the tinkling rime ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From his bald head falling fast.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let his baleful breath shed blight and death ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On herb and flower and tree;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And brooks and ponds in crystal bonds ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Bind fast, but what care we?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let him push at the door,—in the chimney roar, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And rattle the windowpane;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let him in at us spy with his icicle eye, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But he shall not entrance gain.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let him gnaw, forsooth, with his freezing tooth, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On our roof tiles, till he tire;", "") ?>
PagePoem(45, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But we care not a whit, as we jovial sit ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Before the blazing fire.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come, lads, let's sing, till the rafters ring; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come, push the can about;—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From our snug fireside this Christmas-tide ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We'll keep old Winter out.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Thomas Noel.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>