Of such a keen, inclement sky.

“So faint I am, these tottering feet

No more my palsied frame can bear;

My freezing heart forgets to beat,

And drifting snows my tomb prepare.

“Open your hospitable door,

And shield me from the biting blast:

Cold, cold it blows across the moor,

The weary moor that I have passed!”

With hasty steps the farmer ran,