...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tam'd by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...little boon. Which PROVIDENCE assigns them. One alone, 245 The red-breast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of th' embroiling sky, In joyless...

...round; The carver Holm ; the Maple, seldom inward sound. SPENSE& THE ROBIN. the fowls of Heav'n, Tam'd by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...of th' embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves His shiv'ring mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first...

...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tatn'd by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...th' embroiling sky, In joyless fields, and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted mail His annual visit. Il..ilf-afraid, he...

...has very beautifully described the annual visits of this little guest, in the following lines : — " The Redbreast, sacred to the household gods, " Wisely...th' embroiling sky, " In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves " His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man " His annual visit. Half afraid, he...

...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tara'dby the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...of th' embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first...

...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heav'n, Tatn'd by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...sacred to the household Gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves N fti^^ tôiious ; it ^selections...

...Drooping, the labourer-ox Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of Heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd...sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the* embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to...

...cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven, . " Tam'd by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...claim the little boon Which PROvIDENCE assigns them." 13th. Octave of the Epiphany. — Cambridge Term begins. 14th. St. Hilary, Bishop of Poictiers, iu...

...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heav'n, Tam'd ; * every rule ? 'Twas all for fear the knaves should c 3/ thickets leaves His shiv'ring mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first...

...correspond to the Lares or the Penates celebrated this day in old Rome : — Chill Winter still doth reign : the fowls of Heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd...sacred to the Household Gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted...