...CLXIII A FROLIC IN THE SNOW FORTH goes the woodman, leaving unconcerned The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task. OLD FRIENDS 241 Shaggy and lean and shrewd, with pointed ears And tail cropped short, half lurcher...

...woodman's dog, out with his master on a winter day, have even more liveliness and conversational ease: Shaggy and lean and shrew'd, with pointed ears And...half lurcher and half cur His dog attends him. Close behind his heel Now creeps he slow, and now with many a frisk Wide-scampering snatches up the drifted...