When icicles hang by the wall,

And Dick the shepherd [blows his nail],

And Tom bears logs into the hall,

And milk comes frozen home in pail,

When blood is nipp’d, and [ways be foul],

Then nightly sings the [staring owl],

Tu-whit;

Tu-who—a merry note,

While greasy Joan doth [keel the pot].

When all aloud the wind doth blow,