Ridged o’er with many a drifty heap;

The wind that through the pine trees sung

The naked elm-boughs tossed and swung;

While through the window, frosty-starred,

Against the sunset purple barr’d,

We saw the somber crow flit by,

The hawks gray flock along the sky,

The crested blue-jay flitting swift,

The squirrel poising on the drift,

Erect, alert, his broad gray tail,