Beautiful snow, so gently you scud,

Pure for a minute, then dirty as mud.

Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow!

Here’s a fine mess you have left us below;

Chilling our feet to the tips of our toes;

Cheekily landing full pert on our nose;

Jinking, slinking, ever you try

’Neath our umbrella to flop in our eye;

Gamins await us at every new street,

Watching us carefully, guiding our feet,