We read ourselves gradually back to our boyhood in it, and were aware of a flavor in it deliciously local and familiar,a kind of sour-sweet, as in a frozen-thaw apple.

The Abrahamic river To sea-wide fullness fed, Pouring from the thaw-lands By the God of floods is led: His deep enforcing current The streams of ocean own,

Ain't we going down to Sheepshead when the first thaw sets in?

Icicles hung pendant everywhere, and from one fringe a continuous trickle of thaw water had swollen to a miniature waterfall.