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    Snow-Bound A Winter Idyll
    Snow-Bound A Winter Idyll
    Snow-Bound A Winter Idyll
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    Snow-Bound A Winter Idyll

    By Harry Fenn and John Greenleaf Whittier

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateMar 1, 2008
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      Snow-Bound A Winter Idyll - Harry Fenn

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Snow-Bound, by John Greenleaf Whittier

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Snow-Bound

      A Winter Idyll

      Author: John Greenleaf Whittier

      Illustrator: Harry Fenn, Engraved by A. V. S. Anthony and W. J. Linton

      Release Date: December 30, 2006 [EBook #20226]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SNOW-BOUND ***

      Produced by Louise Hope, David Newman, Chuck Greif and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      SNOW-BOUND

      SNOW-BOUND

      A WINTER IDYL

      By JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

      WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

      BOSTON

      JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY,

      Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co.

      1872

      Entered according to Act of Congress, in the years 1865 and 1867, by

      JOHN G. WHITTIER,

      in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

      TO

      THE MEMORY

      OF

      THE HOUSEHOLD IT DESCRIBES,

      THIS POEM IS DEDICATED

      BY

      THE AUTHOR.

      As the Spirits of Darkness be stronger in the dark, so Good Spirits which be Angels of Light are augmented not only by the Divine light of the Sun, but also by our common VVood Fire: and as the Celestial Fire drives away dark spirits, so also this our Fire of VVood doth the same.

      Cor. Agrippa, Occult Philosophy, Book I. chap. v.

      "Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,

      Arrives the snow; and,

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