The Avesta, Volume 5, Number 2, Winter, 1926 Page: 19
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THE AVESTA
"And sleep stole on, as sleep will do,
When hearts are light and life is new."
The next morning the teamsters cleared the highway to their house,
and the Doctor made his rounds. A week passed before the village paper
came to their door and
"We felt the stir of hall and street,
The pulse of life around us beat ;
The chill embargo of the snow
Was melted in the genial glow ;
Wide swung again our ice-locked door,
And all the world was ours once more."
Those lines in which Whittier speaks of his best beloved sister,
Elzizabeth Whittier, who is dead, are full of beauty and pathos. He says
something is lacking in familiar things since she has gone, but yet he is
richer than of old, for he is safe in her immortality, and he feels that she
is not far away.
SNOW-BOUND is artistic in that it makes ordinary farm and household
incidents seem beautiful and interesting. It is suggestive, too, for many
passages, such as those that describe the clothes-post, the familiar objects
in their coats of snow,
"And on the glass the unmeaning beat
Of ghostly finger-tips of sheet,"
challenge our imagination. It seems to me as if SNOW-BOUND will be
popular for some time, for it is a favorite because of its homely realism,
and because of the exactness and simplicity of the touch. It was very
popular at the time of its publication, for the readers bought copies enough
to fill out Whittier's lean purse with ten thousand dollars. SNOW-BOUND
will probably never be world wide, because in other English speaking
nations it is known very little, and even less among people of other tongues.
But I, American born and bred, respond whole heartedly to it.
Snow-Bound is a winter idyl, and a poem on country life. Whittier
sings a simple tune, but the notes are clear and fresh. I agree with the
critic who said that "Whatever be the deficiencies of these verses, they
are not literary exercises but spontaneous expressions of genuine feeling
and interest."
I hesitated in ranking SNOW-BOUND until I found critics to support me
in saying that SNOw-BOUND ranks along with Burn's "The Cotter's Satur-19
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North Texas State Teachers College. The Avesta, Volume 5, Number 2, Winter, 1926, periodical, Winter 1926; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2105597/m1/21/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.