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Big Smith is an Oakland School Board man, / And he looks as good as ever he can; / And he's such a cold and a chaste Big Smith / That snowflakes all are his kin and kith.
Wherever his eye he chances to throw / The crystals of ice begin to grow; / And the fruits and flowers he sees are lost / By the singeing touch of a sudden frost.