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Now winter nights enlarge
The number of their houres;
And clouds their stormes discharge
Upon the ayrie towres.
Let now the chimneys blaze
And cups o'erflow with wine,
Let well-tun'd words amaze
With harmonie diuine.
Now yellow waxen lights
Shall waite on hunny Loue
While youthfull Reuels, Masks, and Courtly sights,
Sleepes leaden spels remoue.
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Harbin, China. A visitor makes her way through a maze made of ice bricks ahead of the 31st Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival: photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters via the Guardian, 4 January 2015
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Moorhens wake up as the rising sun begins to burn off overnight frost at the National Trust’s Dunham Massey park in Altrincham, UK: photo by Christopher Furlong via the Guardian, 2 January 2015
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The festival begins on Monday and will last about three months: photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters via the Guardian, 5 January 2015
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Berlin, Germany. Rain drops veil the view of Brandenburg Gate, while passers-by walk across Pariser Platz: photo by Paul Zinken/EPA via the Guardian, 5 January 2015
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A cormorant perches on a branchat the National Trust’s Dunham Massey park in Altrincham, UK: photo by Christopher Furlong via the Guardian, 2 January 2015
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A black-headed gull (Larus ridibundus) slips on a frozen lake surface at Golden Acre Park, Leeds, UK: photo by Paul Miguel/Rex Features via the Guardian, 2 January 2015
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This year’s theme is ‘Happy Ice Snow, Exciting City’: photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters via the Guardian, 5 January 2015
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Manama, Bahrain.Bahraini anti-government protesters holding a national flag take cover from tear gas during clashes: photo by Hasan Jamali/AP via The Guardian, 4 January 2015
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Bolney, UK.Morris Men perform during an ‘Apple Howling’ ceremony at Old Mill Farm to encourage a bountiful cider crop for the following year: photo byPeter Macdiarmid via the Guardian, 5 January 2015
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Full moon tonight...woooo! #cancun #2015 #fullmoon by scorpion2569: image via InstaCancun@instaCancun, 5 January 2015
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Great photo of last night's #FullMoon via @sc9 #Melbourne: image via Scienceworks @science _works, 5 January 2015
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A beautiful #fullmoon: image via Marilyn Denis @ MarilynDenisCTV, 5 January 2015
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First #FullMoon of 2015 is TONIGHT! Known as the Full Wolf #Moon, Old Moon & the Moon after Yule! (Photo via NASA): image via The Weather Channel@weatherchannel, 4 January 2015
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#fullmoon The sky is the limit.... "Our Moon": image via Danny Jensen @danjsm, 5 January 2015
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New York, USA. A House Sparrow bathes in a shallow pool in Manhattan: photo by Pacific Coast News/BarcroftMedia via The Guardian, 4 January 2015
The moon right now!! Stunning!! #fullmoon: image via Maaz Khan @DirectorMaazK, 5 January 2015
Now winter nights enlarge
The number of their houres;
And clouds their stormes discharge
Upon the ayrie towres.
Let now the chimneys blaze
And cups o'erflow with wine,
Let well-tun'd words amaze
With harmonie diuine.
Now yellow waxen lights
Shall waite on hunny Loue
While youthfull Reuels, Masks, and Courtly sights,
Sleepes leaden spels remoue.
This time doth well dispence
With louers long discourse;
Much speech hath some defence,
Though beauty no remorse.
All doe not all things well;
Some measures comely tread;
Some knotted Ridles tell;
Some Poems smoothly read.
The Summer hath his ioyes,
And Winter his delights;
Though Loue and all his pleasures are but toyes,
They shorten tedious nights.
With louers long discourse;
Much speech hath some defence,
Though beauty no remorse.
All doe not all things well;
Some measures comely tread;
Some knotted Ridles tell;
Some Poems smoothly read.
The Summer hath his ioyes,
And Winter his delights;
Though Loue and all his pleasures are but toyes,
They shorten tedious nights.
Thomas Campion (1567-1620): Now winter nights enlarge, from The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayeres, 1617
A fallow deer grazes in Richmond Park, London, after a night of heavy frost as the temperature dipped below freezing in the capital on New Years Eve: photo by Ben Stevens /i-Images via the Guardian, 2 January 2015
Harbin, China. A visitor makes her way through a maze made of ice bricks ahead of the 31st Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival: photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters via the Guardian, 4 January 2015
Moorhens wake up as the rising sun begins to burn off overnight frost at the National Trust’s Dunham Massey park in Altrincham, UK: photo by Christopher Furlong via the Guardian, 2 January 2015
The festival begins on Monday and will last about three months: photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters via the Guardian, 5 January 2015
Berlin, Germany. Rain drops veil the view of Brandenburg Gate, while passers-by walk across Pariser Platz: photo by Paul Zinken/EPA via the Guardian, 5 January 2015
Visitors walk in an ice maze: photo by Fred Dufour/AFP via the Guardian, 5 January 2015
A cormorant perches on a branchat the National Trust’s Dunham Massey park in Altrincham, UK: photo by Christopher Furlong via the Guardian, 2 January 2015
A woman looks for space to hang her red ribbon bearing her wish on an ice sculpture: photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters via the Guardian, 5 January 2015
A black-headed gull (Larus ridibundus) slips on a frozen lake surface at Golden Acre Park, Leeds, UK: photo by Paul Miguel/Rex Features via the Guardian, 2 January 2015
This year’s theme is ‘Happy Ice Snow, Exciting City’: photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters via the Guardian, 5 January 2015
A snowy owl at Gull Point at Presque Isle state park in Erie, Pennsylvania. It was one of two tundra owls spotted by birdwatchers on Monday at Gull Point. The dark markings on this owl suggest it is either an adult female or juvenile: photo byChristopher Millette/AP via the Guardian, 2 January 2015
Manama, Bahrain.Bahraini anti-government protesters holding a national flag take cover from tear gas during clashes: photo by Hasan Jamali/AP via The Guardian, 4 January 2015
Bolney, UK.Morris Men perform during an ‘Apple Howling’ ceremony at Old Mill Farm to encourage a bountiful cider crop for the following year: photo byPeter Macdiarmid via the Guardian, 5 January 2015
Full moon tonight...woooo! #cancun #2015 #fullmoon by scorpion2569: image via InstaCancun@instaCancun, 5 January 2015
Great photo of last night's #FullMoon via @sc9 #Melbourne: image via Scienceworks @science _works, 5 January 2015
A beautiful #fullmoon: image via Marilyn Denis @ MarilynDenisCTV, 5 January 2015
From the fam in Tennessee #fullmoon #earthsky: image via Greer Bishop @ImNotGreer, 5 January 2015
First #FullMoon of 2015 is TONIGHT! Known as the Full Wolf #Moon, Old Moon & the Moon after Yule! (Photo via NASA): image via The Weather Channel@weatherchannel, 4 January 2015
The #moon is amazing. #fullmoon tonight! Let's get in trouble!! Lol: image via TIME TO RIDE @bet680, 5 January 2015
#fullmoon The sky is the limit.... "Our Moon": image via Danny Jensen @danjsm, 5 January 2015
I'm guessing this means there's an #alpha somewhere near #LakeTahoe? #TeenWolf #FullMoon: image via Matthew De Negro @MatthewDelNegro, 5 January 2015
New York, USA. A House Sparrow bathes in a shallow pool in Manhattan: photo by Pacific Coast News/BarcroftMedia via The Guardian, 4 January 2015