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Show THE FEOST. !; The Frost looked forth, one still cleir night, An he said: "Now I shall be out of sight; So through the valley and over the height In silence I'll take ray way. I will not go like that blustering train. The wind and the snow, the hail and the rain. " Who make so much bustle and noise in vain: But 1 11 be as busy as they!" Then he went to the mountain, and powdered pow-dered its crest. He climbed up the trees, and their boughs he dressed With diamonds and pearls, and over the breast Of the iulverljig lore he spread - .l . A coat of mail, that It need not fear -The downward point of many a spear That he hung on lis margin, far and near, Where a rock could read its bead. . - ' He went to the windows Of those whe slept. And over each pane like a fairy crept; Wherever ha breathed, waerever he ' stepped, Br the light of the moon were seen Most beautiful things. There were flowers and trees, - ' There were bevies of bird and swarms of bees, - " There were cities, thrones, temples and towers, and these All pictured in silver sheen! ' VJftl " . But he did one thing that was haruo . fair-He fair-He peeped In the cupboard, and finding there , That all had forgotten for him to prepare pre-pare "Now Just to set them a-thinking. Q I'll bite this basket of fruit.- said he;f . "This costly pitcher I'll buret In three. And the glass of water they've left tor so -Shall 'tchickl' to tell them I'm dilns ing." Hannah Flagg Gould. ' |