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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WINTRY WINDS, by WALT MASON Poet's Biography
First Line: The wintry wind blows down the village
Last Line: Lounged along the open road, they played and dreamed throughout a busy land.
Subject(s): Wind; Winter
First Line: The wintry wind blows down the village
Last Line: Lounged along the open road, they played and dreamed throughout a busy land.
Subject(s): Wind; Winter
THE wintry wind blows down the village street, and chills men's whiskers as it
fiercely spins. How happy they who have the goods to eat, and bright, warm fires
by which to toast their shins! I see the homes where comfort reigns supreme, the
windows glow, the chimneys cough up smoke; indoors the kids with merry laughter
scream, when Dad turns loose a prehistoric joke. The men who work in summer,
spring and fall, may view the winter with unworried brows, rest in their chairs,
their feet against the wall, and hear the singing of their cheerful fraus.
There's store of onions by the cellar stair, there's bacon hanging by the
kitchen door; the kids have shoes and other things to wear, there's lots of
kindling on the woodshed floor. And as I look, some delegates go past, the
hungry men, who always are on deck; they hunt a hole in which to dodge the
blast, all down and out, each one a sorry wreck. They would not work when summer
smiled and glowed, and there was work for every willing hand; they loafed and
lounged along the open road, they played and dreamed throughout a busy land.
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