Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1898 — When Snow is Deep. [ARTICLE]

When Snow is Deep.

BY BERNARD MALOY. When snow Is deep and mercury’s low, And farmers ’round their pumps must throw Old sacks and straw so they’ll not freeze: And when with care their boots they grease—’Tis then, O Time, you pass too slow. 'TIs then the placid, broad St. Joe Has lost all charms. Ne'er more I trow Will 1 be seen beneath thy trees When snow Is deep. In bllthsome June full oft I know I’d wander 'long thy banks where grow Old Nature's sweets In summer’s breeze— While all around were murmuring bees. But that time’s past. My cake Is dough When snow Is deep. Written on the bunks of the St. Joseph, near St. Mary’s,