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Bill’s Midwinter Music BlogDec 17 Snow Lyrics belowMy brother Paul just sent me this photo that he took of the current view across his backyard. It inspired me to choose today’s songThe lyrics of today’s song, Snow, are a poem by Canadian Poet Archibald Lampman (1861-1899). Poetry is not a lucrative profession. Although he had graduated from Trinity College in Port Hope, Ontario (now part of the University of Toronto) after a brief ill-fated attempt at teaching he settled into a job as a low-paid clerk in the Ottawa Post Office Department, a position he held for the rest of his short life. He hated the job but n...
2022-12-1705 min