Good God! 'tis snowing!

From out the dull and leaden clouds,

The surly storm impatient crowds;

It beats against my fragile door,

It creeps across my cheerless floor;

And through my pantry, void of fare,

And o'er my hearth, so cold and bare,

The wind is blowing;

And she who rests her weary head

Upon our hard and scanty bed,