Did well the walls of all the cot explore
Where’er the snow-gust might a passage form;
And to the couch of age and childhood bore
With anxious care the mantle thick and warm;
And then of fuel gathered ample store,
And bade the blaze up the rude chimney roar.
V.
That night sate Williams, with his children, by
The blazing hearth—his consort at his side;
And often did she heave the heavy sigh