Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1872-04-25


Carriage wheels sitting
warming the cold earth and kindling the glo
OF Christian pity
For the great city
vi wretched creatures who starve mid 4
snow.
Beautiful snow beautiful snow.
fierce winds blowing.
| Ihickly 'ti> showing;
| Night gathers round u--how warm then the glo
OF the fire bright,
! On the cold winter night
Aswe draw IN the curtains 10 shut out the sno,
Beautiful snow beautiful snow
| Round the sweet fireside
| In the sweet eyentidc
Closely we gather, though keen the winds bio
| Safely defended.
Kindly befriendcd
fity the homeless exposed to the snow
| Beautiful snow beautiful snow,
Ruling the sky and the earth below:
over the house-tops. over the street.
over the heads oi the pe ople You meet.
Dancing, flirting. and skimmlng along:
Beautiful snow IL can do no wrong
Flying TO kiss the fair lady's cheek,
Slinging 10 lips in frotic-ome freak
Besutifulsnow from the heavens above.
fure a. an angel. gentle as love.
Beautiful snow beautiful snow,
How the flakes gather aud laugh A. they 9,
Mhiriing about IN their maddeuing fun,
II plays in its glec with every QUE
chasing. laughing. hurrying all by:
IL lights on the face. and it .parkles the eve.
Ana the dogs, with a bark aud a bound
snap at the crystals that eddy around
The town IL alive and lts heart !. agloys.
Iowelcdme the coming Of the beautiful ,ncv
How wild the crowd goes swaying along.
lisiling each other with humor and song.
ifow the gay slcigh-, like meteor.. Hash
bright Tor the moment, then lost to the ey,
Ringing. swinging. dancing they 20
over the ICY crust oi the bpAuiif,Il snow.
snow 80 purc, when il falls from the skv.
10 b. 'ramplod in mud by the crowd pasng
bv:
To b trampled and tracked by thou, ano Of
feet,
Till 1t blend. with the filth in the horrible
street.
once she was pure a. the snow. but she ell :
feli like the snow fakrs from heaven 10 scll .
te!i TO be ranpled nth in the street
feil 10 be scofivd at. TO bo spit on. and ,eai ;
fleading aud curslng-drvs aiding TO die
Selling her soul 10 whoever would buy
Dealing IN shame for inorscl II bread
Hating the living. and fearing the dead
Mcr'lfnl God' has ,hc fallen 40 low
And Yet .hs was once ike the beautiful s,ow ,
oncc she was fair a. the beautiful snow
WIN an eye like it, crystal. heart lke 81.
glow
flai,ercd aud sought for the charm. # her
faCr.
Father and mother, brother. sister. and al.
tol anu herself. shc lost ~ her fall
q" Nilrsi wretch that gpr, shiysring
AAA"s wide swoop, lc-t ,he " aHder too nigh
For all iherc wa. on OF about her. she knew
Their wa- nothing 80 purc A. thc beautiful
snow.
lEsx .sr q 49,.
Should fall on the sinner With no " here 10 60 ,
>tTAngc would be when the night ,ome.
again
II thc .now and the Ice strike her desperate
brain.
Painting snd frecxing-dyinS all alone
To" wicked for prayer. too weak for a moan
10 b. heard in the STREETS oi the craz, town
,,one mad In JOY Of the snow coming down :
10 lac there and die ia her terrible woe.
With her bed aud shrOwd OF The beautiful
SHOWS
WM. ANpHEw >IooU RNaY.
The above version differs from The
Beautiful Snow a. written or claimed
by Mr.. j. W. Watson. mainly in the fol-
lowing particulars. In Mr. WATSON s
ver-ion the first six stanzas are omitted,
and the remainder is written In the f-sI
person instead ot the third An additibn-
al verse was written bv Mr.. Sigourncy
-- , .---sl % ssaii0wS
Helpless and frail AZ the trampled on snow
Sinner, despair not. Christ stooIeth low
To rescue the soul that i. lost in it, ..n
And rai-e II to life and enjoyment again.
eroanins. bleeding. and dying for thee.
i he truciued hung on the Cursed tree.
His accents Of mcrcy fall sofi on the ear
Is there merry for me. will he heed NV weak
prayer,
God. In the stream that for sinners doth
fow,
Wash me. and shall be whittier than snow.
The following letter, which has never
before been published, was roc, ived bv
a gentleman connected with one of the
papers OF this city. IL may, perhaps.
throw some new litht on the disputed
que.t on of authorship:
"MEssKNGER' OFFICE. ,
ST. ALBANs, VT. Nav %, 1869. (
c. ID. =. Esq:
Dear Sir-Wil YOU publish in the -
the poem entitled Beautiful snow" as