Put on their winter-robe of purest white:

’Tis brightness all, save where the new snow melts

Along the mazy current. Low the woods

Bow their hoar head; and ere the languid Sun,

Faint, from the West emits his ev’ning ray,

Earth’s universal face, deep hid, and chill,

Is one wide dazzling waste, that buries wide

The works of man. Drooping, the lab’rer-ox

Stands cover’d o’er with snow, and then demands

The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heav’n,