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

A Christmas Carol
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND There's a song ...

A Christmas Piece
Of garnered rhyme, from hidden stores of olden time tha...

Wassailer's Song
ROBERT SOUTHWELL Wassail! wassail! all over ...

Christmas
NAHUM TATE While shepherds watch'd their flo...

The Christmas Fires
ANNE P.L. FIELD The Christmas fires brightly...

The Night After Christmas
ANNE P.L. FIELD Twas the night after Christm...

The Shepherds

WILLIAM DRUMMOND, OF HAWTHORNDEN

O than the fairest day, thrice fairer night!
Night to blest days in which a sun doth rise
Of which that golden eye which clears the skies
Is but a sparkling ray, a shadow-light!
And blessed ye, in silly pastor's sight,
Mild creatures, in whose warm crib now lies
That heaven-sent youngling, holy-maid-born wight,
Midst, end, beginning of our prophecies!

Blest cottage that hath flowers in winter spread,
Though withered--blessed grass that hath the grace
To deck and be a carpet to that place!
Thus sang, unto the sounds of oaten reed,
Before the Babe, the shepherds bowed on knees;
And springs ran nectar, honey dropped from trees.





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