On being squirrelly

摘要

There's an old carol that starts out: In the bleak mid-winter, 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 mid-winter, long ago... Christina Georgina Rossetti wrote the poem in 1872, and it's usually sung to a 1906 tune by Gustav Hoist.