y come from the patient industry of true art, and from which we
gather more hope for the poet's future than from anything else in the
present book:--

"The old man took the blow, but did not fall,--
Its weight had been before. The land was sold,
The mortgage closed. The winter, cold and long,
(Permitted by the hand that grasped his all,
That winter passed he here,) beside his fire,
He talked of moving in the spring....

"In the spring,
When the first warmth had brooded everywhere,
He sat beside his doorway in that warmth,
Watching the wagons on the highway pass,
_With something of the memory of his dread
In the last autumn._"

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