There is nothing so pure as the beautiful snow.

How strange it should be that this beautiful snow,

Should fall on a sinner with nowhere to go!

How strange it should be when the night comes again,

If the snow and the ice struck my desperate brain!

Fainting—Freezing—-Dying alone.

Too wicked for prayer, too weak for a moan,

To be heard in the streets of the crazy town.

Gone mad in the joy of the snow coming down

To lie and to die in my terrible woe,