My snow-globe is more rare than rare,— A strange antique most singular: Crafted by one in magick skill’d, Its contents cannot e’er be spill’d. It started as a crystal ball Enchanted and invincible. A snowman now doth dwell therein, Blasphemous, foul, and wicked as sin. He only dons a scarf and sneer, This angry, deviled, little dear. He bears within the globe alone An endless blizzard’s blast and moan. The little thing is largely mean: He rages still and gluts his spleen. He rages while the storm doth blow Alike the thunder in the snow.