In the Bleak Midwinter...

There's an old, beautiful Christmas carol that's been in my head for a few days, and more so early this morning, being out with Buck in the biting wind:

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, long ago...