Paula Simons: Boxing Day carol's story as relevant today as ever

Good King Wenceslas looked out
On the Feast of Stephen,
When the snow lay round about,
Deep and crisp and even.
Brightly shone the moon that night,
Though the frost was cruel,
When a poor man came in sight,
Gathering winter fuel.
When I was a kid, Good King Wenceslas was always one of my favourite carols. The deep crisp snow. The bright moon. The cruel frost. It sounded like the winters I knew in Alberta. 
But I also liked the song because it didn’t have an overt reference to the nati