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The Spirit Of Christmas
From Pickwick Papers. CHARLES DICKENS And numerou...

A Christmas Carol
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL What means this glory r...

The Mahogany-tree
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Christmas is her...

Carol
O Child of Mary's tender care! O little Child ...

Cradle Hymn
ISAAC WATTS Hush, my dear, lie still and slu...

On Santa Claus
GEORGE A. BAKER, JR. Brave old times those were. In ...

A Christmas Star
KATHERINE PYLE "COME now, my dear little stars," s...





Christmas Carol






PHILLIPS BROOKS

The earth has grown old with its burden of care,
But at Christmas it always is young,
The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair,
And its soul full of music bursts forth on the air,
When the song of the angels is sung.

It is coming, Old Earth, it is coming to-night!
On the snowflakes which cover thy sod
The feet of the Christ-child fall gentle and white,
And the voice of the Christ-child tells out with delight
That mankind are the children of God.

On the sad and the lonely, the wretched and poor,
The voice of the Christ-child shall fall;
And to every blind wanderer open the door
Of hope that he dared not to dream of before,
With a sunshine of welcome for all.

The feet of the humblest may walk in the field
Where the feet of the Holiest trod,
This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed
When the silvery trumpets of Christmas have pealed,
That mankind are the children of God.





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