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Show H ' THE DELIVERER. H M By Clinton Scollard. H Inexorable seems the cold. Beneath H the heel M The snow creaks cringingly. Wan H vapors lift M Above the stream, and tiny crystals drift M Adown a sky that glints like burnished B steel. B , Warped boughs, like hands, are raised H in vain appeal M For succor or surease. Strange B noises shift M Athwart the distance, and a price- B less gift H It were one breath of the warm South to feel! B What wizard hand shall shatter this B grim spell, B Rive this white bondage that en- B girds the earth, B Renew the meadow revelry, the B mirth B v Of woodland aisles, the old en- B rapturing gleam? Hj Let April blow upon her charmed H sheel, H The bonds will sever like the bonds Bf of dream! H N. Y. Sun. |