Citation - Connecticut Gazette-New London: 1775.02.03

CG-NL.775.009
3 Feb 1775:41 (12/586)
Extract from Thomson's much admired poem on Winter.
  Ah little think the gay licentious proud,
  Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround;
  They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth,
  And wanton, often cruel, riot waste;
  Ah little think they, while they dance along,
  How many feel, this very moment, death
  And all the sad variety of pain;
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