Companionable
ticking of the clock;
Collapsing of the coal;
The chair-legs warm;
Tobacco in a bowl;
The door sealed up;
The sooted kettle's hiss;
The fire-lit loaf; the cocoa-tin; the cup;
Outside, the unplumbed night and pattering storm.At
such an hour as this
A ghost might knock,
Lacking unearthly comfort in its soul. |