Crossword-Solution: HIEMS 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

This side is _Hiems_, Winter; this _Ver_, the Spring; the one maintained by the owl, th’ other by the cuckoo.

And thorough this distemperature we see The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose; And on old Hiems’ thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set.

Segrais has observed farther, that when Anna counsels Dido to stay Æneas during the winter, she speaks also of Orion:— “_Dum pelago desævit hiems_, _et aquosus Orion_.” If therefore Ilioneus, according to our supposition, understand the heliacal rising of Orion, Anna must mean the achronical, which the different epithets given to that constellation seem to manifest.

Snow Lake, over chasm, dale, mountain, pending that month dear above all others to King Hiems-- inexorable January? If so, you can indeed boast of having held communion with the grim God of Winter in some of his stern, though captivating, moods.

Solvitur acris hiems grata vice veris et Favoni, Trahuntque siccas machinae carinas, Ac neque iam stabulis gaudet pecus aut arator igni, Nec prata canis albicant pruinis.