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Several characters in this poem steal a "frightened look" at "the gray wizard's conjuring book," referring to Cornelius Agrippa's Occult Philosophy, which supplies the first of this poem's two epigraphs. The author's note to this poem explains that its "not unfeared, half-welcome guest" was Harriet Livermore, although it does not identify "the master of the district school," who is described as one of "Freedom's young apostles" who will "Uplift the black and white alike" after the Civil War. Near the beginning of this poem, the call "Boys, a path!" leads the central family to dig a tunnel to their barn, before that family tells stories by the fireplace in order to wait out the results of a storm. Subtitled "A Winter Idyl," for 10 points, name this John Greenleaf Whittier poem about a New England blizzard.
Several characters in this poem steal a "frightened look" at "the gray wizard's conjuring book," referring to Cornelius Agrippa's Occult Philosophy, which supplies the first of this poem's two epigraphs.
"{Snow}-{Bound}: A Winter Idyl"