In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.
In the Bleak Midwinter, by Christina Rossetti.
In the Bleak Midwinter, by Christina Rossetti.
Bleak is the word! This could be the driveway to a Nazi death camp in Poland. There’s a horrible thought…