The air was thick with snow.

“And of every flake of falling snow

Before it touched the ground,

There came a dove, and a thousand doves

Made sweet doves’ sound.

“’Twas the body of Judas Iscariot

Floated away full fleet,

And the wings of the dove that bore it off

Were like its winding-sheet.

“’Twas the Bridegroom stood at the open door