Shouting and pelting—what bliss to fall Half-smother’d beneath the well-aim’d ball! Men of fourscore, did ye ever know Such sport as ye had in the drifting snow?
The speaker is connecting another kind of joy to the snow through the image of boys having a snowball fight. She speaks to elderly men to bring back the memory of the good times they had in the snow. This brings the two groups of people together.