Old Christmas Recalled - online book

Washington Irving's description of Old Christmas, Illustrated

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	6                                           CHRISTMAS
	Our feelings sally forth and dissipate themselves over the sunny landscape, and we "live abroad and everywhere.', The song of the bird, the murmur of the stream, the breathing fragrance of spring, the soft voluptuousness of summer, the golden pomp of autumn ; earth with its mantle of refreshing green, and heaven with its deep delicious blue and its cloudy magnificence, all fill us with mute but exquisite delight, and we revel in the luxury of mere sensation. But in the depth of winter, when nature lies despoiled of every charm, and wrapped in her shroud of
	sheeted snow, we turn for our gratifications to moral sources. The dreariness and desolation of the landscape, the short gloomy days and