The Snowy Eve. A Sonnet
David Macbeth
Moir
Moir, David Macbeth (pseudonym Delta,
∆)
△
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Poet attribution: △ is the pseudonym in Blackwood’s for David Macbeth Moir. (AC)
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
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’Tis night, and Darkness o’er the
land and sea
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The Snowy Eve.
A Sonnet.
’Tis night, and Darkness o’er the
land and sea
Outstretches gloomily her ebon wings ;
Downward, with biting breath, the tempest flings
The whirling snow-flake, dancing giddily.
What is my thought ?—the traveller on the moor,
Benighted, lonely, urging on his steed,
Where all is solitude, and none to heed.
What is my thought ?—the ocean’s awful roar
Recalls the wandering mariner, afar
Upon the rayless deep, whose flashing gun,
The signal of distress, is heard by none,
Save Him, who placed in heaven the evening star.
What is my thought ?—that feeling is distress,
And human life a wintry wilderness.
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