Wrap their old limbs with somber ivy-twine.


Winter.

Robert Southey.

A wrinkled, crabbed man they picture thee,

Old Winter, with a rugged beard as gray

As the long moss upon the apple-tree;

Blue-lipt, an ice-drop at thy sharp blue nose,

Close muffled up, and on thy dreary way

Plodding alone through sleet and drifting snows.