Christmas, Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and VerseRobert Haven Schauffler |
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... HOLLY UNDER THE HOLLY - BOUGH · CEREMONIES FOR CHRISTMAS SANTA CLAUS William Shakespeare 108 . • Charles Mackay 109 ⋅ · Robert Herrick 110 THE CEREMONIES FOR CHRISTmas Day DECEMBER Anonymous III Robert Herrick 112 Harriet F. Blodgett ...
... HOLLY UNDER THE HOLLY - BOUGH · CEREMONIES FOR CHRISTMAS SANTA CLAUS William Shakespeare 108 . • Charles Mackay 109 ⋅ · Robert Herrick 110 THE CEREMONIES FOR CHRISTmas Day DECEMBER Anonymous III Robert Herrick 112 Harriet F. Blodgett ...
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... HOLLY Leigh Hunt IOI William Shakespeare 108 UNDER THE HOLLY - BOUGH CEREMONIES FOR CHRISTMAS SANTA CLAUS · • · Charles Mackay 109 . Robert Herrick 110 THE CEREMONIES FOR CHRISTMAS DAY DECEMBER Anonymous III Robert Herrick 112 Harriet F ...
... HOLLY Leigh Hunt IOI William Shakespeare 108 UNDER THE HOLLY - BOUGH CEREMONIES FOR CHRISTMAS SANTA CLAUS · • · Charles Mackay 109 . Robert Herrick 110 THE CEREMONIES FOR CHRISTMAS DAY DECEMBER Anonymous III Robert Herrick 112 Harriet F ...
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... holly and mistletoe , " And all the bells on earth shall ring On Christmas day in the morning . " THE SHEPHERDS WILLIAM DRUMMOND , OF HAWTHORNDEN O than the fairest day , thrice fairer night ! Night to blest days in which a sun doth ...
... holly and mistletoe , " And all the bells on earth shall ring On Christmas day in the morning . " THE SHEPHERDS WILLIAM DRUMMOND , OF HAWTHORNDEN O than the fairest day , thrice fairer night ! Night to blest days in which a sun doth ...
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... holly , nor mistletoe ; they only shall keep the feast to whom all these things are but the outward and visible signs of an inward and spiritual grace . Rosalind and myself are thoroughly ortho- dox when it comes to the keeping of ...
... holly , nor mistletoe ; they only shall keep the feast to whom all these things are but the outward and visible signs of an inward and spiritual grace . Rosalind and myself are thoroughly ortho- dox when it comes to the keeping of ...
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... holly that ob- scures the title of Bacon's solemn and weighty " Essays , " and I get half a page of sugges- tions for my notebook from the fact that a sprig of mistletoe has fallen on old Burton's " Anatomy of Melancholy . " Rosalind ...
... holly that ob- scures the title of Bacon's solemn and weighty " Essays , " and I get half a page of sugges- tions for my notebook from the fact that a sprig of mistletoe has fallen on old Burton's " Anatomy of Melancholy . " Rosalind ...
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angels Anne P. L. Field Babe baby beautiful Bethlehem birth blessed born bright bring CAROL JAMES Charles Dickens cheer Christ Christmas Bells CHRISTMAS CAROL Christmas day Christmas Eve CHRISTMAS SONG church cradle Cratchit dinner divine door eyes face feast festival Fir Tree fire gifts gladness glory good-will green hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW hills holiday holly HYMN King kissed kneel light listen looked Lord manger MARGARET DELAND Mary Mapes Dodge merry Christmas midnight Centuries ago Minstrels and maids mistletoe morning mother Nicholas night Nowell o'er Peace on earth praise Ring Robert Haven Schauffler Robert Herrick round Santa Claus Saviour season shining silent Sing hey sleep snow solemn midnight Centuries sound spirit star stood sweet tell thee thing thou thought to-night voice wassail William Makepeace Thackeray wind
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Page 27 - To you in David's town, this day, Is born of David's line, The Saviour, who is Christ the Lord ; And this shall be the sign. 4 " The heavenly babe you there shall find To human view displayed, All meanly wrapped in swathing bands, And in a manger laid.
Page 73 - 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 25 - Hark! The herald angels sing Glory to the newborn 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" Hark the herald angels sing Glory to the newborn King 2.
Page 43 - 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 200 - And ye, beneath life's crushing load Whose forms are bending low ; Who toil along the climbing way With painful steps and slow, — Look now ! for glad and golden hours Come swiftly on the wing; O, rest beside the weary road, And hear the angels sing.
Page 82 - Hallo! A great deal of steam! The pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that! That was the pudding!
Page 141 - The time draws near the birth of Christ; The moon is hid, the night is still; A single church below the hill Is pealing, folded in the mist. A single peal of bells below, That wakens at this hour of rest A single murmur in the breast, That these are not the bells I know. Like strangers...
Page 39 - It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born Child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies ; Nature in awe to Him Had doffed her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize : It was no season then for her To wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour.
Page 40 - She woos the gentle air To hide her guilty front with innocent snow; And on her naked shame, Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw ; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.