yankee gypsies

john greenleaf whittier

"here\'s to budgets, packs, and wallets; here\'s to all the wandering train." burns

i confess it. i am keenly sensitive to "skyey influences." i profess no indifference to the movements of that capricious old gentleman known as the clerk of the weather. i can not conceal my interest in the behavior of that patriarchal bird whose wooden similitude gyrates on the church spire. winter proper is well enough. let the thermoneter go to zero if it will; so much the better, if thereby the very winds are frozen and unable to flap their stiff wings. sounds of bells in the keen air. clear, musical, heart-inspiring; quick tripping of fair moccasined feet on glittering ice pavements.....