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What flurrying of rains and snows! / Now every coachman, blue of nose, / In fur and ire / Sits petrified. Oh, it were right / To spend this wild December night / Before one's fire!
The cosy chimney-corner chair / Assumes its most persuasive air. / I seem to see / Its arms held out, its voice to hear, / Beseeching like a mistress dear: / "Ah, stay with me!"