Birds and flowers, or, Lays and lyrics of rural life (1873)
Howitt, Mary Botham, 1799-1888, Giacomelli, Hector, 1822-1904 · London ; New York : T. Nelson and Sons · leaf 147
OLD-FASHIONED WINTER. FiVE-AND-TWENTY years ago,Winter was a time of snow.Frost and snow, I well remember,Were the emblems of December.Then, in one nights time there fellSnow wliich made impassable OLD-FASHIONED WINTER. 141 Roads and streets, until the spadeTo every house a path had made.Then the…