He lives to learn, in life’s hard school,

How few who pass above him

Lament their triumph and his loss,

Like her,—because they love him.

THE WHITTIER FAMILY

(FROM “SNOW-BOUND”[[3]])

All day the gusty north-wind bore

The loosening drift its breath before;

Low circling round its southern zone,

The sun through dazzling snow-mist shone.