Beyond my window, fierce and wild

Beyond my window, fierce and wild,

The savage tempest roars and rages,

With scudding stormclouds, streaming rain

And howling wind that fades to silence!

An awful night! On such a night

I pity those bereft of shelter:

A deep compassion drives me forth

To share the winter's damp embraces!...

To strive against the gloom and rain,

At one with outcasts, doomed to suffer...

Beyond my window, fierce and wild,

The raging wind sinks in exhaustion!