IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER

In the bleak mid-winter

Frosty wind made moan,

Earth stood hard as iron,

Water like a stone;

Snow had fallen, snow on snow,

Snow on snow,

In the bleak mid-winter

Long ago.

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Based on a poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti, and put into music by the great Loreena McKennitt.