{"id":1138,"date":"2013-12-26T23:16:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T04:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2013-12-27T01:48:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T06:48:22","slug":"cruel-frost-is-cruel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2013\/12\/26\/cruel-frost-is-cruel","title":{"rendered":"Cruel Frost Is Cruel"},"content":{"rendered":"

And a one and a two and…<\/p>\n

Good King Wenceslas looked out
\nOn the Feast of Stephen<\/i><\/p>\n

The mention of the Feast of Stephen being the single only reason this is a Christmas song.<\/p>\n

When the snow lay round about
\nDeep and crisp and even<\/i><\/p>\n

Yeah, yeah, winter, got it.<\/p>\n

Brightly shone the moon that night
\nThough the frost was cruel<\/i><\/p>\n

Good. So you can see where you’re going while you freeze to death. Go inside!<\/p>\n

When a poor man came in sight
\nGathering winter fuel.<\/i><\/p>\n

Got to keep the car gassed up and heater all kerosened up.<\/p>\n

Second verse!<\/p>\n

“Hither, page, and stand by me,
\nIf thou know’st it, telling
\nYonder peasant, who is he?
\nWhere and what his dwelling?”<\/i><\/p>\n

Getting kind of nosy.<\/p>\n

“Sire, he lives a good league hence
\nUnderneath the mountain;
\nRight against the forest fence
\nBy Saint Agnes’ fountain.”<\/i><\/p>\n

He’s a wizard who will eat you. Better stay home.<\/p>\n

Third verse!<\/p>\n

“Bring me flesh, and bring me wine
\nBring me pine logs hither:
\nThou and I shall see him dine
\nWhen we bear them thither.”<\/i><\/p>\n

Leave people alone while they are eating!<\/p>\n

Page and monarch, forth they went
\nForth they went together;
\nThrough the rude wind’s wild lament
\nAnd the bitter weather.<\/i><\/p>\n

A lot of inter-class bonding in the NSA’s early years.<\/p>\n

Fourth verse!<\/p>\n

“Sire, the night is darker now
\nAnd the wind blows stronger;
\nFails my heart, I know not how;
\nI can go no longer.”<\/i><\/p>\n

See? Your voyeuristic ways are getting your assistant killed.<\/p>\n

“Mark my footsteps, good my page.
\nTread thou in them boldly
\nThou shalt find the winter’s rage
\nFreeze thy blood less coldly.”<\/i><\/p>\n

These alternative medicine cures to hypothermia are weird.<\/p>\n

Fifth verse!<\/p>\n

In his master’s steps he trod
\nWhere the snow lay dinted;
\nHeat was in the very sod
\nWhich the saint had printed.<\/i><\/p>\n

Ohhh, got you. Wencie was dropping them glove warmer things from his feet. Or something. I guess.<\/p>\n

Therefore, Christian men, be sure,
\nWealth or rank possessing,
\nYe who now will bless the poor,
\nShall yourselves find blessing.<\/i><\/p>\n

Well, it beats getting mind-fucked by some ghosts Christmas Eve night at least.<\/p>\n

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