...A merry party we shall be to-night, and form around a good hearty ENGLISH FIRESIDE." CHAPTER XV. " When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul,...

...Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, and T. Nash among the number. What says Shakespeare? — When icicles bang by the wall And Dick the Shepherd blows his nail. And Tom bears logs into the hall And milk comes frozen home in pail; When blood is nipt, and ways be foul....

...their chime, With falling oars they kept the time. Andrew Mareell. LYRICS FROM THE OLDER WRITERS. I. WINTER. WHEN icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipt, and ways be foul,1...

...word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! Winter. A Sony. [At the end of " Love's Labour Lost."] WHEN icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, VOL. II. X And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail ; When blood is nipt,...

...for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — 0 word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear t III. Winter. When icicles hang by the wall," And Dick the shepherd blows hit nailj And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd,...

...not so sharp As friend remember'd not. Heigh, ho ! &c. &c. [At the end of • Love's Labour Lost1] nded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail ; When blood is nipt, and ways be foul,...

...this friendly bird is, and we trust ever will be, sacred. When everything is fettered by frost — " When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail" — even then the plaintive warbling of the Robin is heard ; as if to remind man that, amidst all the...

...men, for thus sings he ; Cuckoo, Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear .' Unpleasing to a married ear. ns. Imprimis, " She can fetch and carry." Why, a horse can do no m Ilif nail. And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd,...

...smocks, then, iedm , Cuckoo; The cuckoo then, on erery tree, JJocks married men, for thus rings he, in. Winter. When icicles hang by the wall, •And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom liturs logs into the hull, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd. and ways befoul,...

...them all a happy new year, and much pleasure from a perusal of The Florist over a cheerful fire, " When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail." GENERAL INDEX. Amaryllids, Mr. Carton...