Ah, dismal hours in black and white! the pale Eye of this languid dawn admits fr'intents Ne colour on that scale, the cold from hence Mair bitter cuz which note cries in betrayl? The blacktop scraped in shovling to avail Our passage looks the colder with a sense We feel within our bones, to want from thence Morn's *** of tea to hearten souls like's bail. And yet we have Thy Scriptures, LORD. This tour Of snowy vistas to remind anew That our souls shall be "white as snow--" more pure Than my heart's yearnings as I think now too Of three years ere when Mum's death was as twere Made all the more stark by this icy view.