dots-menu
×

Home  »  An American Anthology, 1787–1900  »  1265 The Yule Log

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By William HamiltonHayne

1265 The Yule Log

OUT of the mighty Yule log came

The crooning of the lithe wood-flame,—

A single bar of music fraught

With cheerful yet half pensive thought,—

A thought elusive: out of reach,

Yet trembling on the verge of speech.