Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-12-29 | Page 9 | Snow

uu SNOW. A lot of snow came down last nlcht,' It's lying round me as 1 write, in ghastly ghast-ly drift and heap; it's in the alleys and the mews, it's everywhere, for men to use the only thing that's cheap If snow would make the furnace ho. and heat the house, 'twould hit tho spot, and spoil a lot of grief; alas, it isn't worth a dern. ln vain v. e ve tried to make it burn, so we rear up and beef. How it would soothe the anguished soul, if there should be a fall of coal, 'or wood in proper size! 'Twould make the outlook far more bright to have la nower of anthracite from these for-I for-I bidding skies We long to see the ! fireplace glow, and so we get a raft 'of snow that will not oven smoke: and so we sit around and freeze ami say , that life s one long disease, that's ceased to be a joke. My hands are j frozen on my lyre, there is no coal, , there is no fire. am', knife edged tern- p Bts bl iw; I 1 ok aro 1 tuft II to burn, for egg or nut or lump I H yearn and get a foot of snow. The H snow lies deep on dale and dell; I . J have a thousand tons to sell, but no p H one wants to buy; men want it not, H but they'd go broke to get a cord of f c m or oak Horn end' r lo-vc-ring sky. -j l