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WHEN the wind
works against us in the dark,
And pelts with snow
The lowest chamber window on the east,
And whispers
with a sort of stifled bark,
The beast,
'Come out!
Come out!'--
It costs no inward struggle not to go,
Ah, no!
I count our strength,
Two and a child,
Those of us not asleep subdued to mark
How the cold
creeps as the fire dies at length,--
How drifts are
piled,
Dooryard and road ungraded,
Till even the
comforting barn grows far away
And my heart owns a
doubt
Whether 'tis in us to arise with day
And
save ourselves unaided.
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