There are those who meet death on the foam,—

But greater are those who, unheralded, battle

With Fate for the loved ones at home!


[IN SLEIGHING TIME]

There is magic in the jingle of the sleighbells, don’t you know,

That sets the blood a-tinglin’ till the cheeks are all a-glow;

An’ the cares that press upon one, in the merry winter weather,

At the jingle of the sleighbells dance off lighter than a feather,—

How the jingle,