EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO: A SNOWBOUND KIND OF DAYS - The Village Of Hur

(03/05/2021)

IN CASE YOU CAN'T REMEMBER WINTER By Bob Weaver - February, 2003 The skyline of "The Knob" It was not a blizzard like Whittier's famous poem "Snowbound," but it was a snowbound kind of day yesterday in the Village of Hur, with little traffic and little movement. The highways were hazardous, a time to settle back and read, talk and eat lots of comfort food. A time to consider the tiniest of blessings, enjoy the cats and dogs and watch the birds. And even time to read Whittier's poem, one more time. Rick Fitzwater being a good neighbor, plowing the snow All day the gusty north-wind bore The loosening drift its breath before; Low circling round its southern zone, The sun through dazzling snow-mist shone. No church-bell lent its Christian tone To the savage air, no social smoke Curled over woods of snow-hung oak... The famous Hur outhouse, featured on web sites and public radio A solitude made more intense By dreary-voicëd elements, The shrieking of the mindless wind, The moaning tree-boughs swaying blind, And on the glass the unmeaning beat Of ghostly finger-tips of sleet... Flashy red cardinal, the male Beyond the circle of our hearth No welcome sound of toil or mirth Unbound the spell, and testified Of human life and thought outside... Not so flashy cardinal, the female We minded that the sharpest ear The buried brooklet could not hear, The music of whose liquid lip Had been to us companionship, And, in our lonely life, had grown To have an almost human tone... From Snow-Bound A Winter Idyl by John Greenleaf Whittier Read the entire poem here Poets Corner-Bookshelf

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