But he’d die inside

The earliest known photograph of a snowman, c. 1853, by Mary Dillwyn

“Seeing the snowman standing all alone
In dusk and cold is more than he can bear.’’

— From “Boy at the window, by Richard Wilbur (1921-2017), New England-based poet

Here’s the whole poem:

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/boy-at-the-window/