At one point in this poem, the speaker recites an "old rhyme" that goes "Under the tree, / When fire outdoors burns merrily, / There the witches are making tea.
At one point in this poem, the speaker recites an "old rhyme" that goes "Under the tree, / When fire outdoors burns merrily, / There the witches are making tea." One epigraph to this poem notes that "as the Celestial Fire drives away dark spirits, so also this our fire of Wood doth the same" and is taken from Cornelius Agrippa's Occult Philosophy. Its speaker's mother tells of how her great-uncle was nearly scalped in an Indian attack, while the schoolmaster plays with the central family's cat and tells stories about Dartmouth. After waking and going(*) outside, its speaker tells of how "Around the glistening wonder bent / The blue walls of the firmament", describing the scene before him as "No cloud above, no earth below, -- A universe of sky and" a certain substance. Â For 10 points, identify this work subtitled "A Winter Idyl", a poem about the aftereffects of a storm written by John Greenleaf Whittier.
At one point in this poem, the speaker recites an "old rhyme" that goes "Under the tree, / When fire outdoors burns merrily, / There the witches are making tea.
"Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl"