BUT HERE by the fire we defy frost and storm, Ha, ha! we are warm, And we have our hearts' desire.
For here's four good fellows, And the beechwood and the bellows, And the cup is at the lip, In the pledge of fellowship.
RICHARD HOVEY, classof 1885,wrote the "WinterSong," excerpted above, forthe first edition of Dartmouth Songs, publishedin 1898. Hovey was paidfor this song—and also for"Eleazar Wheelock" andother lyrics—by composerFrederick Field Bullard.