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diff --git a/old/17135.txt b/old/17135.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 8266562..0000000 --- a/old/17135.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,596 +0,0 @@ -Project Gutenberg's Twas the Night before Christmas, by Clement C. Moore - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Twas the Night before Christmas - A Visit from St. Nicholas - -Author: Clement C. Moore - -Illustrator: Jessie Willcox Smith - -Release Date: November 22, 2005 [EBook #17135] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS *** - - - - -Produced by Janet Blenkinship, Suzanne Shell and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - Twas the Night Before Christmas - - A Visit from St. Nicholas - - By Clement C. Moore - - - [Illustration] - - - With Pictures by Jessie Willcox Smith - - Houghton Mifflin Company - - Boston - - Copyright (c) 1912 by Houghton Mifflin Company - - All rights reserved. For information about permission - to reproduce selections from this book, write to - Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Company, 215 Park - Avenue South, New York, New York 10003. - - HC ISBN 0-395-06952-1 - PA ISBN 0-395-64374-0 - - Printed in the United States of America - - LBM 40 39 38 37 36 - - - - -INTRODUCTION - - -Amid the many celebrations last Christmas Eve, in various places by -different persons, there was one, in New York City, not like any other -anywhere. A company of men, women, and children went together just after -the evening service in their church, and, standing around the tomb of -the author of "A Visit from St. Nicholas," recited together the words of -the poem which we all know so well and love so dearly. - -Dr. Clement C. Moore, who wrote the poem, never expected that he would -be remembered by it. If he expected to be famous at all as a writer, he -thought it would be because of the Hebrew Dictionary that he wrote. - -He was born in a house near Chelsea Square, New York City, in 1781; and -he lived there all his life. It was a great big house, with fireplaces -in it;--just the house to be living in on Christmas Eve. - -Dr. Moore had children. He liked writing poetry for them even more than -he liked writing a Hebrew Dictionary. He wrote a whole book of poems for -them. - -One year he wrote this poem, which we usually call "'Twas the Night -before Christmas," to give to his children for a Christmas present. They -read it just after they had hung up their stockings before one of the -big fireplaces in their house. Afterward, they learned it, and sometimes -recited it, just as other children learn it and recite it now. - -It was printed in a newspaper. Then a magazine printed it, and after a -time it was printed in the school readers. Later it was printed by -itself, with pictures. Then it was translated into German, French, and -many other languages. It was even made into "Braille"; which is the -raised printing that blind children read with their fingers. But never -has it been given to us in so attractive a form as in this book. It has -happened that almost all the children in the world know this poem. How -few of them know any Hebrew! - -Every Christmas Eve the young men studying to be ministers at the -General Theological Seminary, New York City, put a holly wreath around -Dr. Moore's picture, which is on the wall of their dining-room. Why? -Because he gave the ground on which the General Theological Seminary -stands? Because he wrote a Hebrew Dictionary? No. They do it because he -was the author of "A Visit from St. Nicholas." - -Most of the children probably know the words of the poem. They are old. -But the pictures that Miss Jessie Willcox Smith has painted for this -edition of it are new. All the children, probably, have seen other -pictures painted by Miss Smith, showing children at other seasons of the -year. How much they will enjoy looking at these pictures, showing -children on that night that all children like best,--Christmas Eve! - - E. McC. - - - - - 'Twas the Night before Christmas - - -[Illustration] - -'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house -Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; -The stockings were hung by the chimney with care -In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; - -[Illustration] - -The children were nestled all snug in their beds, -While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; -And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, -Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap, - -[Illustration] - -When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, -I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter. -Away to the window I flew like a flash, -Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash. - -[Illustration] - -The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow -Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below, -When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, -But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer, - -[Illustration] - -With a little old driver, so lively and quick, -I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick. -More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, -And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name: - -"Now, _Dasher!_ now, _Dancer!_ now, _Prancer_ and _Vixen!_ -On, _Comet!_ on, _Cupid!_ on, _Donder_ and _Blitzen!_ -To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall! -Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!" - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - -As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, -When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky; -So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, -With the sleigh full of Toys, and St. Nicholas too. - -And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof -The prancing and pawing of each little hoof. -As I drew in my head, and was turning around, -Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. - -He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot, -And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; -A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back, -And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack. - -[Illustration] - -His eyes--how they twinkled! his dimples how merry! -His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry! -His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, -And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow; - -[Illustration] - -The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, -And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath; -He had a broad face and a little round belly, -That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly. - -[Illustration] - -He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, -And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself; -A wink of his eye and a twist of his head, -Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread; - -[Illustration] - -He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, -And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk, -And laying his finger aside of his nose, -And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose; - -[Illustration] - -He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, -And away they all flew like the down of a thistle. -But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, -_"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night."_ - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Twas the Night before Christmas -by Clement C. 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