BEAUTIFUL SNOW

Oh the snow the beautiful snow

Filling the sky and earth below

Orer the housetops and lover the street

Over the heads of the people jou mett

Dancing j

Flirting Skimming along

Beautiful snow it can do nothing wrong

Flying to kiss a fair lady s cheek

Clinging to lips in a frolicsome freak

Beautiful snow from the heavens above

Pure as an angel and fickle as love

Oh the snow the beautiftil snow

How the flakes gather and laugh as they go I

Whirling about in its maddening tun

It plays in its glee with every one

Chasing Laughing Hurrying by

It lights up the face and it sparkles the eye

And even the dogs with a bark and a bound

Snap at the crystals that eddy around

The town is alive and its heart in a glow

To welcome the coming of beautiful snow

Row the wild crowd goes swaying along

Hailing each other with humor and song

How the gay sledges like metecps flash by—

Bright for a moment then lost to the aye

Ringing Swinging Daahing they go

Over the crest of the beautiful snow

Snow so pure when it falls from the sky

To be trampled in mud by the crowd rushing by

To be trampled and tracked by the thousands of feet

Till it blends with the filth in the horrible street

Once I was pure as the snow—but I fell

Fell like the snow flake from heaven—to hell

Fell to be tramped as the filth of the street

Fell to be scoU ed to be spit on and boat

Pleading purging Dreading to dio

Selling my soul to whoever will buy

Dealing m shame for a morsel of bread

ilating the livinjg and fearing the dead

Merciful God have I fallen so low

Ami yet I was once like this beautiful snow

Once I was fair as the beautiful snow

With an eye like its crystals a heart like its glow

Once I was loved lor ray innocent grace—

1 lattered and sought for the charui of my face

Father Mother Sisters all

God and myself I have lost by my fall

The veriest wretch that goes shivering by

Will take a wide sweep lest 1 wander too nigh

For all that is on lac or about me I kuow

There s nothing that s pure but the beautiful snov

How strange it should be tliat this beautiful snow

Should fall on a sinner with nowhere to go

How strange it should be when the night comes again

If the snow and the ice struck my desperate brain

Fainting Freezing Dying alone

Too wicked for prayer too weak for my moan

To he heard in the crash of the crazy town

Gone mad iu their joy at the snow s comiug down

To lie and to die in my terrible woe

With a bed and a shroud of the beautiful snow