<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 42px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">In the Bleak Midwinter</span><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>by Christina Rosetti</div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">In the bleak midwinter, long ago.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him, nor earth sustain;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Heaven and earth shall flee away when He comes to reign.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">In the bleak midwinter a stable place sufficed<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Lord God Almighty, Jesus Christ.</p><div class="code-block code-block-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; margin: 8px 0px; clear: both;"><amp-ad type="doubleclick" data-slot="/18190176,22570125456/AdThrive_Content_2/5cd4333495adbd7574c9094c" json="{"targeting":{"siteId":"5cd4333495adbd7574c9094c","siteName":"Interesting Literature","amp_type":"rtc", "decref":"240", "location":"Content","sequence":2,"refresh":"false","amp":"true"}}" layout="fluid" height="fluid" width="336" data-multi-size="300x250,336x280,300x50,320x100,320x50,1x1" data-multi-size-validation="false" rtc-config="{
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