While shuddering and foodless I sob in the cold.

You all are in gladness; but I am in sorrow,

And must rest on the ground, to be dead on to-morrow.

Oh! dreary to die with my home at a distance,

And all those I love too far off for assistance;

Around me the snow-flakes are falling and flying,

And the sad light of evening is darkening and dying;

The winds freeze my blood as they mournfully sweep,

And icicles hang on my rags as I weep.

Ah, pity my poverty, pity my years,