# The Snow Man

- Source: McGuffey's Fourth Reader (fourth-reader.gutenberg.org), Public domain, William Holmes McGuffey, 1879, via Project Gutenberg
- Reading level: Grade 5
- Subjects: Poems, Nature
- Topics: snow, thee, above, amid, apart, blast
- Length: 100 words, about 1 min
- By: Marian Douglas
- Original: <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14880>
- Page: <https://sprout.rootsofreason.org/r/mcguffey-fourth/fourth-52-the-snow-man>
- Open in Sprouts: <https://sprout.rootsofreason.org/?read=mcguffey-fourth/fourth-52-the-snow-man>

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Look! how the clouds are flying south!  
The winds pipe loud and shrill!  
And high above the white drifts stands  
The snow man on the hill.

Blow, wild wind from the icy north!  
Here's one who will not fear  
To feel thy coldest touch, or shrink  
Thy loudest blast to hear.

Proud triumph of the schoolboy's skill!  
Far rather would I be  
A winter giant, ruling o'er  
A frosty realm, like thee,

And stand amid the drifted snow,  
Like thee, a thing apart,  
Than be a man who walks with men,  
But has a frozen heart!

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