Arrayed in winter’s garb. Oh gorgeous sight,

Unutterably grand! The morn was black

And dark and dismal; through the middle day

The storm’s white burden was cast down to earth

With strange rapidity; and now the night

Shines bright and glorious, beautiful and fair!

Far o’er the head, so lofty that the eye

Can scarce rise up to view her, glows the moon

With keen intensity of silver light,

And from her heavenly altitude pours down