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Oh the long and dreary Winter! / Oh the cold and cruel Winter! / Ever thicker, thicker, thicker / Froze the ice on lake and river, / Ever deeper, deeper, deeper / Fell the snow o'er all the landscape, / Fell the covering snow, and drifted / Through the forest, round the village. / Hardly from his buried wigwam / Could the hunter force a passage; / With his mittens and his snow-shoes / Vainly walked he through the forest, / Sought for bird or beast and found none, / Saw no track of deer or rabbit, / In the snow beheld no footprints, / In the ghastly, gleaming forest / Fell, and could not rise from weakness, / Perished there from cold and hunger.
Oh the famine and the fever! / Oh the wasting of the famine! / Oh the blasting of the fever! / Oh the wailing of the children! / Oh the anguish of the women!