Anda di halaman 1dari 1

At Christmas play and make good thousands of miles away, back to his

cheer, own fire-side and quiet home!


For Christmas comes but once a year. - Charles Dickens
- Thomas Tusser
Some say, that ever 'gainst that season
comes
’T was the night before Christmas, when Wherein our Saviour's birth is
all through the house celebrated,
Not a creature was stirring, not even a This bird of dawning singeth all night
mouse; long.
The stockings were hung by the - William Shakespeare
chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would It was the calm and silent night!
be there; Seven hundred years and fifty-three
The children were nestled all snug in Had Rome been growing up to might,
their beds, And now was queen of land and sea.
While visions of sugar-plums danced in No sound was heard of clashing wars,
their heads Peace brooded o’er the hushed domain;
-Clement Clarke Moore, A Visit From Apollo, Pallas, Jove, and Mars
St. Nicholas Held undisturbed their ancient reign
In the solemn midnight,
Christmas is here: Centuries ago.
Winds whistle shrill, - Alfred Domett, Christmas Hymn
Icy and chill.
Little care we;  
Little we fear
Weather without,
Sheltered about The Mahogany Tree.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

It is good to be
children sometimes,
and never better than
at Christmas, when its  
mighty Founder was a
Child himself.
- Charles Dickens

At Christmas I no more desire a rose


Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled
mirth;
But like of each thing that in season
grows.
- William Shakespeare

Calm on the listening ear of night


Come Heaven’s melodious strains,
Where wild Judea stretches far
Her silver-mantled plains.
- Edmund Hamilton Sears, Christmas
Song

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win


us back to the delusions of our childish
days; that can recall to the old man the
pleasures of his youth; that can
transport the sailor and the traveller,

Anda mungkin juga menyukai