She wandered in the snow.

She asked the way of all she met,

But none the way could show.

“It must be farther yet,” she sighed;

“Then farther will I go.”

And still, ’tis said, on Christmas Eve,

When high the drifts are piled,

With staff, with basket on her arm,

Babushka seeks the Child:

At every door her face is seen,—