Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-11 | Page 5 | The Snowstorm

The Th Snowstorm b k Announced by all the trumpets of the S y Arrives n-Ives the snow and driving oer o'er the C if fields Seems Stems nowhere to alight the whited air Hides hills and woods the river and and the I E heaven End And And veils the farmhouse at the gardens garden's I E I end T The pe a sled and traveler tra stopped the CouI Cou- Cou ou- ou I Jr rier's ncr's fret 13 Delayed all friends shut out the housemates housemates house- house jfe mates sit the radiant fireplace enclosed I IB II- II IIa a tumultuous privacy of ot storm came me see the north winds wind's masonry q Out ut of or an unseen quarry evermore with tile the fierce artificer s his white bastions with projected Round every windward stake or tree or I door Speeding the myriad handed his wild I K work fanciful so savage naught cares h he heIr her Ir r number or protection Mockingly coop or kennel he hangs Parlan wreaths A swan form Invests the hidden thorn n F Ellis its Is up the farmers farmer's lane from wall wall to wall M the farmers farmer's sighs and at the I gate gateA A turret overtops the work A And d when his hours are numbered and Id B the world I all his own retiring as he were not Leaves ves when the sun lIun appears astonished Art ArtTO Arti I TO mimic In slow structures stone by byI i P. P I stone L tilt WIt lt in an age th the mad winds wind's night night- work The frolic architecture of the snow f E Ralph Waldo Emerson