Arrayed in gleaming white,

Nor heard the sledge's silver bells

Go tinkling through the night.

For thee no glittering snow-storm whirls;

Thou hast instead of this

Only the dust-storm's eddying swirls—

The hot-wind's scalding kiss!

What can'st thou know of frozen lakes,

Or Hyde—that Park divine?

For, though by no means lacking snakes,