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HANOVER WINTER SONG by RICHARD HOVEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: HO, A SONG BY THE FIRE!
Last Line: SKOAL!
Subject(s): DARTMOUTH COLLEGE; SPORTS; WINTER;

Ho, a song by the fire!
(Pass the pipes, fill the bowl!)
Ho, a song by the fire!
-- With a skoal! ...
For the wolf wind is whining in the door-ways,
And the snow drifts deep along the road,
And the ice-gnomes are marching from their Norways,
And the great white cold walks abroad.
(Boo-oo-o! pass the bowl!)
For here by the fire
We defy frost and storm.
Ha, ha! we are warm
And we have our hearts' desire;
For here's four good fellows
And the beechwood and the bellows,
And the cup is at the lip
In the pledge of fellowship.
Skoal!



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