"The winds are bitter; the skies are wild;

From the roof comes plunging the drowning rain,

Without—in tatters, the world's poor child

Sobbeth aloud her grief, her pain!

No one heareth her, no one heedeth her:

But Hunger, her friend, with his bony hand

Grasps her throat, whispering huskily—

'What dost thou in a Christian land?'

"WITHIN.

"The skies are wild, and the blast is cold,