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A cold coming they had of it at this time of the year, just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey. The ways deep, the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off, in solstitio brumali, ‘the very dead of winter’.

— Lancelot Andrewes

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Compare: T. S. Eliot, "Journey of the Magi" (1927)

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