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The Legend Of Babouscka
ADAPTED FROM THE RUSSIAN IT WAS the night the dear...

The Fir-tree
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN OUT in the woods stood a n...

O Little Town Of Bethlehem
PHILLIPS BROOKS O little town of Bethlehem, ...

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night
MARGARET DELAND Like small curled feathers, ...

Neighbors Of The Christ Night
NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH Deep in the shelter of ...

Colonial Christmases
ALICE MORSE EARLE [From Customs and Fashions in Old ...

The Christmas Masquerade
MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN ON Christmas Eve the Mayor...

Neighbors Of The Christ Night

NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH

Deep in the shelter of the cave,
The ass with drooping head
Stood weary in the shadow, where
His master's hand had led.
About the manger oxen lay,
Bending a wide-eyed gaze
Upon the little new-born Babe,
Half worship, half amaze.
High in the roof the doves were set,
And cooed there, soft and mild,
Yet not so sweet as, in the hay,
The Mother to her Child.
The gentle cows breathed fragrant breath
To keep Babe Jesus warm,
While loud and clear, o'er hill and dale,
The cocks crowed, Christ is born!
Out in the fields, beneath the stars,
The young lambs sleeping lay,
And dreamed that in the manger slept
Another white as they.

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These were Thy neighbors, Christmas Child;
To Thee their love was given,
For in Thy baby face there shone
The wonder-light of Heaven.





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