Your body lies frozen in the early morning cold Because no matches you sold Around you the matches which you did burn In this cruel world which you has spurned They thought you did it to keep warm As the old year passed and the new on dawned But we know of the beautiful sights And know your eternal delight So your blood is frozen ice So you leave us to our vice So your frozen frozen blood Is all that's left for us to love Your smile now does cheer In happiness the new year And now in radiance you do live And in your mercy you forgive