Old Christmas Recalled - online book

Washington Irving's description of Old Christmas, Illustrated

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	Dark and dull night, flie hence away, And give the honour to this day That sees December turn'd to May. *                               *                               *                               -X-                               * Why does the chilling winter's morne Smile like a field beset with corn ? Or smell like to a meade new-shorne, Thus on the sudden ?—Come and see The cause why things thus fragrant be. HerrIck.