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Christmas

White the weather, white the weather!

Stars and ice at one together,

Shining frost on cracking branches,

Snow in pale smooth avalanches.

White the weather, wintry weather.

Wan the way, where once the heather

Bloomed in radiant summer weather,

Sparkling icicles moon-lustred

Droop, where once the green leaves clustered.

Life is sleeping, held in tether.

Once a Babe was born this weather,

Three Wise Men set forth together;

Once a Star of wondrous glory

Told the Christ's triumphant story.

Wintry weather!—God's own weather!

All the world washed white together!

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