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A Winter Nigh (第1/3页)
a winter night poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, that bide the pelting of this pitiless storm! how shall your houseless heads, and unfed sides, your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you from seasons such as these?—shakespeare. when biting boreas, fell and dour, sharp shivers thro' the leafless bow'r; when phoebus gies a short-liv'd glow'r, far south the lift, dim-dark'ning thro' the flaky show'r, or whirling drift: ae night the storm the steeples rocked, poor labour sweet in sleep was locked, while burns, wi' snawy wreaths up-choked, wild-eddying swirl; or, thro' the mining outlet bocked, down headlong hurl: list'ning the doors an' winnocks rattle, i thought me on the ourie cattle, or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle o' winter war, and thro' the drift, deep-lairing, sprattle beh a scar. ilk happing bird,—wee, helpless thing! that, in the merry months o' spring, delighted me to hear thee sing, what es o' thee? whare wilt thou cow'r thy chittering wing, an' close thy e'e? ev'n you, on murdering errands toil'd, lone from your savage homes exil'd, the blood-stain'd roost, and sheep-cote spoil'd my heart fets, while pityless the tempest wild