"Yet more outragious is the season still, A deeper horror, in Siberian wilds; Where Winter keeps his unrejoicing court, And in his airy hall the loud misrule Of driving tempest is for ever heard. There thro’ the ragged woods absorpt in snow, Sole tenant of these shades, the shaggy bear, With dangling ice all horrid, stalks forlorn; Slow-pac’d and sourer as the storms increase, He makes his bed beneath the drifted snow; And, scorning the complainings of distress. Hardens his heart against assailing want. While tempted vigorous o’er the marble waste. On sleds reclin’d, the furry Russian sits; And, by his rain-deer drawn, behind him throws A shining kingdom in a winter’s day."
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James Thomson, "Winter", The Four Seasons, and Other Poems (1735)
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