Oh the snow the beautiful snow

Filling tho sky and tho earth below

Over the hou e tops over the street

Over t he heads of the people 011 meet

Dancing Flirting Skimming along—

Beautiful snow it can do nothing wrong

Flying to kiss a fair lady s cheek

ClingmK to lips in frolicksomo Ireak

Beautiful snow from the heaven above

Pure as an angel gontlo us love I

Oh tho snow the beautiful snow

How the flakes gather and laugh as they go

Whirling about in their maddening fun

It plays in its gloo with every ono

Chasing Laughing Hurrying by

It lights on the face and sparkles tho eye

Aud even tho dog with a l»hrk and a bound

Snap at tho crystals that eddy arouud—

The town in alive and it heart s in a glow

To welcome the coming of beautiful snow

How wildly the crowd goes swaying along

Hailing each other with humor und song

How tho gay sledges like meteors flash by

Bright for a moment then lost to tho eye

Kinging Swinging Dancing they go

Over the crust of tho beautiful snow

Snow so pure when it fell from tho sky

To bo t rami led in mud by tho crowd rushing by

To Ik» trampled aud tracked by the thousands or

feet

Till it blends with the filth in tho horrible

stroet

Once 1 was pure as the snow but I fell

Fell like tho suowflake from heaven to hell

Fell to be tramples as tilth in tho street

Fell to be scoffed to bo spit on und beat

Pleading Cursing Dreading to dio

Selling my soul to whoever would buy

Hogging iu shamo for a morsel of bread

Hating tho living and foariug tho dead

Merciriil iod Have I fallen so low

And yot 1 was ouco like the beautiful snow

Once I was fair ns the beautiful snow

With an eye like its crystal a heart liko its snow

Once 1 was loved for my innocent grace

Flattered aud sought lor tho cnarms of my faco

Fathor Mother Sister all

Jod and myself I ve lost by my fall

The direst wretch that goes shivering by

Will make a wide swoop lost I wander too nigh

For all that is on or above me I know

There s nothing that s pure us tho beautiful snow

How strange should it be that tho beautiful snow

Should fall on a sinner with nowhere to go I

How strange should it l o when night comes again

If tho snow and tho ice striko my desperate brain

Fainting Freezing Dying alone

Too wicked for prayer too weak for a moan

To bo heard in the streets of tho crazy town

Oono mad in tho Joy of tho snow coming down I

To be and to die in my terrible woe

With u bed ami a shroud of the beuutiful snow