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Snow on Snow

Snow had fallen, snow on snow, / Snow on snow, / In the bleak mid-winter / Long ago. You probably know these lines, either from Christina Rossetti’s poem of 1871 or, more likely, Holst’s setting of them as a carol. I know them. I used one of them as title of a book, “bleak” altered to “deep” by the publisher, who thought the former too gloomy. Which it might indeed be. Rossetti was melancholic....

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