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There is nothing at all to do to day	A
I can't go out and run and play	A
For it's raining and snowing and sleeting too	B
And Old Man Winter he is to blame	C
And I just sit here and think it a shame	C
There is nothing at all to do	B
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I stand or sit at the windowpane	D
And look at the snow and look at the rain	D
And the old dead leaves go flying by	E
For Wild Man Wind is making a din	F
And mother says that it is a sin	F
And I'm almost ready to cry	E
	-
I can't go out in the wind and wet	G
And it's a long time yet till the table's set	G
And we are ready for toast and tea	H
It's a long time too till the lamp is lit	I
And my father's home and I can sit	I
And he can read to me	H
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And I can not play or do a thing	J
And there's no one coming visiting	J
For it's storming more and more	K
But now and then there's a rat tat tat	L
And I ask my mother what is that	L
And she says 'The wind at the door '	-
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And she says 'Now what can the Old Wind want	M
A knocking there with his knuckles gaunt	N
You can hear his old hat dripping rain	D
And his ragged cloak that flaps and slaps	O
Why I guess he's looking for little chaps	O
To give them a cold again	P
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'You can see him there by the water spout	Q
With Old Man Rain just flapping about	Q
His long sharp nose an icicle	R
And his fingers too and his old wild eyes	S
Small and gray as the winter skies	S
Or ice in a winter well '	-
	-
And then she comes to my side and sits	T
And says 'Just listen how he hits	T
But he can't get in and you can't get out	Q
And by and by he'll be out of breath	U
And grumble and growl himself to death	U
Or leave with a mighty shout '	-
	-
Right then there comes a step on the stair	V
And I run to see and my father's there	V
With snow and rain on his coat and hat	L
Now Old Man Winter can break his cane	D
Can crack his cane on the windowpane	D
I don't care a rap for that	L
	-
For my father's home 'It's a wild old night	W
The Wind and the Snow are having a fight '	-
He says 'and are mauling each other around	X
First Old Man Snow rips out a curse	Y
Then Wild Man Wind says something worse	Y
Then both are on the ground	X
	-
'And Old Man Snow is underneath	Z
And he snarls like a wolf and shows his teeth	Z
While Wild Man Wind just hits and hits	T
Then round they wrestle and Old Snow reels	A2
His long wild whiskers around his heels	A2
And his gray cloak torn in bits	T
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'And before you know it he's up with a bound	X
And it's Wild Man Wind that hits the ground	X
And Old Man Snow holds down his arm	B2
You can see them there by the window light	W
Wrangling wrestling out in the night	W
Out in the night and storm '	-
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Then I look and see how the wind and snow	C2
Just fight it out and thrash and blow	C2
Their windy rags through the ghostly black	D2
Go whistling past the windowpane	D
Then I run to the fire and lamp again	P
And reach a book from the rack	D2
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The lamp is lit and my father's knee	H
And the fairy tales are ready for me	H
And I sit and he holds me by the hand	E2
Now Wild Man Wind and Old Man Snow	C2
Can do their worst and bluster and blow	C2
I am far in Fairyland	E2

Madison Julius Cawein

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