To-day, in snow array'd, stern winter rules
The ravag'd plain-Anon the teeming earth
Unlocks her stores, and spring adorns the year:
And shall not we-while fate, like winter, frowns,
Expect revolving bliss? (Tobias Smollett)

To-day, in snow array'd, stern winter rules The ravag'd plain-Anon the teeming earth Unlocks her stores, and spring adorns the year: And shall not we-while fate, like winter, frowns, Expect revolving bliss?

Tobias Smollett

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