Shows nothing but a waste, with one broad track

Stamp’d to the humble door-post from the lane;

The snow-capp’d wood-pile stretching near the walls;

And the half severed log with axe that leans

Within the gaping notch.

‘The room displays

Long rows of desk and bench; the former stain’d

And streak’d with blots and trickles of dried ink,

Lumbered with maps and slates and well-thumb’d books,

And carved with rude initials; while the knife