...fitting that unwarming light, Which only seemed where'er it fell To make the coldness visible. 155 Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged...pane and door, While the red logs before us beat THE WHITTIER HOME. The above picture is copied from a photograph of the kitchen in the Whittier homestead...

...rosy bloom." No greater picture of homely contentment could be shown than the following lines : — " Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged...wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While fhe red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat ; And ever, when a louder blast Shook...

...drew on," says the poet, We piled with care our nightly stack Of wood against the chimney back,— The oaken log, green, huge and thick And on its top...pane and door; While the red logs before us beat The frost line back with tropic heat ; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed,...

...Whittier's Snow-Bound. These few lines reveal, somewhat in detail, the interior of Whittier's farm home: Shut in from all the world without We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The Frost-line...

...American content. The fury of the storm without only added to the cosiness of the family circle who Sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door._ \c/ Their domestic felicity, their simple piety, their unquestioning assurance that their industry...

...fitting that unwarming light, \Vhich only seemed where'er it fell To make the coldness visible. 154 Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line...

...ancestors in the days when fireplaces instead of stoves and furnaces were used to heat the houses : Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost line...

...mild weather the fire only burns, it has no enthusiasm for combustion. Whittier gives us a snowstorm: Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged...pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost line back with tropic heat; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed,...

...fell, To make the coldness visible. H. THE FIRESIDE CIRCLE Shut in from all the world without, 153 We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let...before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat ; 160 And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring...

...Most fitting that unwarming light, Which only seemed where'er it fell To make the coldness visible. Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line...