To Mr. Clarence E. Eddy
"When Icicles Hang by the Wall" (15 Dec 1884)
Words by William Shakespeare, 1563-1616
(from "Love's Labour's Lost", Act 5, Scene 2
[_Winter_ Songs III and IV])
Set to Music
For a Low Voice
by 
Arthur William Foote, 1853-1937

[Plate No.] A.P.S.& Co. 500
Price 40 Cts.

Boston: 
Arthur P. Schmidt & Co., 
13 and 15 Wset Street.

[Source: 
CALL NUMBER
M2.3.U6A44
PART OF
American 19th-century sheet music. 
Copyright deposits, 1870-1885 
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress. Music Division. 
DIGITAL ID
sm1884 20283 urn:hdl:loc.music/sm1884.20283 
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/sm1884.20283]

When icicles hang by the wall
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,
And Tom bears logs into the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail:
When blood is nipp’d, and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl
To-who! To-whit! To-whit! 
To-who! a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

When all aloud the wind doth blow,
And coughing drowns the parson’s saw,
And birds sit brooding in the snow,
And Marlan’s nose looks red and raw;
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl
Then nightly sings the staring owl
To-who! To-whit! To-whit!
To-who! a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot, the pot 
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.