The Sky is low the Clouds are mean — House of the Seven Gables

The Sky is low-the Clouds are mean. 1
A Travelling Flake of Snow
Across a Barn or through a Rut
Debates if it will go-

A Narrow Wind complains all Day 5
How some one treated him
Nature, like Us is sometimes caught
Without her Diadem.
(F.1121/J.1075)
[1] Sky:: conditions, circumstances. Clouds:: dull faces.
[2] Flake:: a particle of incandescent matter, a flash. Snow:: white, innocent. Travelling Flake of Snow:: an innocent guest with passion, Phoebe Pyncheon.
[3] Barn:: a large boring house. Rut:: routine, custom, habitual way.
[4] Debates:: considers, deliberates.
[5] Wind:: empty words.
[5, 6] complains, some one, him:: Clifford Pyncheon who complains Judge Jaffrey.
[7] Nature:: mood, disposition, temper.
[8] Diadem:: dignity, nobility of one's nature; a head band, fillet of a woman. Without:: losing one's temper like losing head band.