Question

What each of them possessed ? ( the cold within )

Answer 1

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Six humans trapped by happenstanceIn bleak and bitter cold.Each one possessed a stick of woodOr so the story’s told.
Their dying fire in need of logsThe first man held his backFor of the faces round the fireHe noticed one was black.
The next man looking ‘cross the waySaw one not of his churchAnd couldn’t bring himself to giveThe fire his stick of birch.
The third one sat in tattered clothes.He gave his coat a hitch.Why should his log be put to useTo warm the idle rich?
The rich man just sat back and thoughtOf the wealth he had in storeAnd how to keep what he had earnedFrom the lazy shiftless poor.
The black man’s face bespoke revengeAs the fire passed from his sight.For all he saw in his stick of woodWas a chance to spite the white.
The last man of this forlorn groupDid nought except for gain.Giving only to those who gaveWas how he played the game.
Their logs held tight in death’s still handsWas proof of human sin.They didn’t die from the cold withoutThey died from the cold within.[==========================================================

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Answer 2

each of. them possessed a stick there is a symbolic significance of Lok the log of wood after eating down poem