Christmas: Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and VerseRobert Haven Schauffler |
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angels Babe baby beautiful Bethlehem bills of fare blessed born bright CAROL JAMES CHARLES DICKENS cheer child Christ Christ-child Christmas Bells CHRISTMAS CAROL Christmas day Christmas Eve church Cratchit dear delight Dick dinner door eyes face festival Fezziwig Fir Tree fire friends gathered glad glory good-will hand happy hate holidays hear heard heart heaven heigho holly holy Jovita King knew light listened looked Lord manger MARGARET DELAND MARY MAPES DODGE merry Christmas Minstrels and maids mistletoe morning mother never Nicholas night Nowell o'er peace on earth plum-pudding poor Rattlesnake Creek Ring ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER ROBERT HERRICK Roger round Santa Claus Saviour season shepherds shining silent Sing hey sleep snow solemn song sound spirit star stood story sweet tell thee thing thou thought Tiny Tim to-night voice wassail wind winter
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Page 83 - The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 83 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres ; Once bless our human ears — If ye have power to touch our senses so ; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow ; And, with your ninefold harmony, Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Page 35 - Glory to the new-born King ; Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled : Joyful all ye nations rise, Join the triumph of the skies, With the angelic host proclaim, Christ is born in Bethlehem.
Page 53 - Nature, that heard such sound Beneath the hollow round Of Cynthia's seat the airy region thrilling, Now was almost won To think her part was done, And that her reign had here its last fulfilling ; She knew such harmony alone Could hold all Heaven and Earth in happier union.
Page 55 - Will open wide the gates of her high palace hall. But wisest Fate says No; This must not yet be so; The Babe yet lies in smiling infancy That on the bitter cross Must redeem our loss ; So both himself and us to glorify: Yet first, to those ychain'd in sleep The wakeful trump of doom must thunder through the deep...
Page 57 - Lemures moan with midnight plaint; In urns, and altars round A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat.
Page 84 - Ceremony doffed his pride. The heir, with roses in his shoes, That night might village partner choose; The lord, underogating, share The vulgar game of
Page 51 - No war or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.
Page ix - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 51 - And, though the shady Gloom Had given Day her room, The Sun himself withheld his wonted speed, And hid his head for shame, As his inferior flame The...