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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: Christmas Sunshine + +Author: Various + +Release Date: January 15, 2007 [EBook #20378] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHRISTMAS SUNSHINE *** + + + + +Produced by Jacqueline Jeremy, Juliet Sutherland and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + +[Illustration] + + +CHRISTMAS +SUNSHINE + + +BUFFALO NEW YORK +THE HAYES LITHOGRAPHING CO. + + + + +Do the angels know the blessed day, + And strike their harps anew? +Then may the echo of their lay + Float sweetly down to you, +And fill your soul with Christmas song +That your heart shall echo your whole life long. + +_Havergal._ + + + + +[Illustration] + +A bright and happy Christmas to you! Lift up yourselves to the +great meaning of the day, and dare to think of your humanity as +something so sublimely precious that it is worthy of being made +an offering to God, and then go out to the pleasures and duties +of your life, having been truly born anew into His Divinity, as +He was born into our humanity on Christmas Day. + +_Phillips Brooks._ + + + + +Most tangible of all the gods that be, +O Santa Claus--our own since infancy!-- +As first we scampered to thee--now, as then, +Take us as children to thy heart again. + +_Riley._ + + + + +[Illustration] + +Then welcome snow of Christmas, + We read thy prophecy, +We know what wish lies hidden, + What germs of life may be +Concealed beneath thy mantle, + All folded close away, +Awaiting their fruition, + In heaven's eternal day. + +_M. C. O._ + + + + +One wish ere yet the long year ends; + Let's close it with a parting rhyme, +A pledge, a hand, to all our friends + As fits the merry Christmas time: +On life's wide scene you, too, have parts, + That Fate ere long shall bid you play; +Good-night: with honest, gentle hearts, + A kindly greeting go alway. + +_Thackeray._ + + + + +It was the winter wild, +While the heaven-born child + All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies: +Nature, in awe to him +Had doff'd her gaudy trim, + With her great Master so to sympathize: +It was no season then for her +To wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour. + +Only with speeches fair +She wooes the gentle air + To hide her guilty front with innocent snow: +And on her naked shame, +Pollute with sinful blame, + The saintly veil of maiden white to throw; +Confounded, that her Maker's eyes +Should look so near upon her foul deformities. + +But he, her fears to cease, +Sent down the meek-ey'd Peace; + She, crowned with olives green, came softly sliding +Down through the turning sphere +His ready harbinger, + With turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing; +And, waving wide her myrtle wand, +She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. + +No war or battle's sound, +Was heard the world around; + The idle spear and shield were high up hung, +The hooked chariot stood, +Unstained with hostile blood; + The trumpet spake not to the armed throng; +And kings sat still with awful eye, +As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. + +But peaceful was the night, +Wherein the Prince of light + His reign of Peace upon the earth began: +The winds with wonder whist +Smoothly the waters kist, + Whispering new joys to the mild ocean, +Who now hath quite forgot to rave, +While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave. + +_Milton._ + + + + +[Illustration] +[Illustration] + +Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes +Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, +The bird of dawning singeth all night long; +And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad, +The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, +No fairy takes nor witch hath power to charm, +So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. + +_Shakespeare._ + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + +O HOLY Child of Bethlehem! + Descend to us, we pray; +Cast out our sin, and enter in, + Be born in us to-day. +We hear the Christmas angels + The great glad tidings tell; +Oh come to us, abide with us, + Our Lord Emmanuel! + +_Phillips Brooks._ + + + + +Swell the notes of the Christmas Song! + Sound it forth through the earth abroad! + Blessing and honor, thanks and laud! +Take the joy of the Christmas Song! + Are not the tidings good and true? + Peace to you, + And God's good will that is ever new. + +_Havergal._ + + + + +You little children, in whose eyes +Undimmed the light of heaven glows, +Whose dreams are bright with paradise, +Whose souls are whiter than the snows, +From holy lips and undefiled, +Breathe your soft prayer to Christ, the Child! + +And you whose thinning locks are sprent + With unreturning autumn's rime, +Whose heads, like wind-worn trees, are bent + Beneath the savage storms of time-- +Pray Christ, the Child, to be your guide +Past the dim shoal, where shadows bide. + +O saving hands! O Christ, that hears + A mortal mother's lullabies; +That feels our agony and tears, + Whose bosom trembles with our sighs, +Give us pure hearts and undefiled, +Make us like thee, O Christ, the Child! + +_Unknown._ + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Hark! how all the welkin rings, +Glory to the King of kings! +Peace on earth, and mercy mild, +God and sinner reconciled! +Joyful, all ye nations, rise, +Join the triumph of the skies; +Universal nature say, +Christ the Lord is born to-day. + +Christ, by highest heaven adored; +Christ, the everlasting Lord; +Late in time behold Him come, +Offspring of a Virgin's womb; +Veil'd in flesh and Godhead see; +Hail, th' Incarnate Deity! +Pleased as man with men t' appear, +Jesus, our Immanuel here! + +Hail! the heavenly Prince of Peace! +Hail! the Sun of Righteousness! +Light and life to all He brings, +Risen with healing in His wings. +Mild He lays His glory by, +Born that man no more may die, +Born to raise the sons of earth, +Born to give them second birth. + +_Charles Wesley._ + + + + +God rest ye, merry gentlemen; let nothing you dismay, +For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. +The dawn rose red o'er Bethlehem, the stars shone through the gray, +When Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. + +God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, +For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night; +Along the hills of Galilee the white flocks sleeping lay, +When Christ, the Child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas-day. + +God rest ye, all good Christians; upon this blessed morn +The Lord of all good Christians was of a woman born: +Now all your sorrows He doth heal, your sins He takes away; +For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. + +_Dinah Maria Mulock._ + + + + +[Illustration] + +There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which +I have not profited, I dare say, Christmas among the rest. But I am +sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come +round--apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, +if anything belonging to it can be apart from that--as a good time; +a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know +of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one +consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people +below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, +and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And +therefore, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my +pocket, I believe that it _has_ done me good, and _will_ do me good; +and I say, God bless it! + +_From "A Christmas Carol." +Charles Dickens._ + + + + +[Illustration] + +Hark, the glad sound! the Saviour comes, + The Saviour promised long; +Let every heart prepare a throne, + And every voice a song! + +He comes, the prisoners to release + In Satan's bondage held; +The gates of brass before Him burst, + The iron fetters yield. + +He comes, the broken heart to bind, + The bleeding soul to cure, +And with the treasure of His grace + T' enrich the humble poor. + +Our glad Hosannas, Prince of Peace, + Thy welcome shall proclaim, +And heaven's eternal arches ring + With thy beloved name. + +_Philip Doddridge._ + + + + +Christ is come to be my Friend, + Leading, loving to the end; +Christ is come to be my King, + Ordering, ruling everything. +Christ is come! Enough for me, + Lonely though the pathway be. + +_F. R. Havergal._ + + + + +Ye who have scorn'd each other +Or injured friend or brother, + In this fast fading year; +Ye who, by word or deed, +Hath made a kind heart bleed, + Come gather here. +Let sinn'd against and sinning, +Forget their strife's beginning; +Be links no longer broken, +Be sweet forgiveness spoken, + Under the holly bough. + +Ye who have lov'd each other, +Sister and friend and brother, + In this fast fading year: +Mother, and sire, and child, +Young man and maiden mild, + Come gather here; +And let your hearts grow fonder, +As memory shall ponder + Each past unbroken vow. +Old loves and younger wooing, +Are sweet in the renewing, + Under the holly bough. + +Ye who have nourished sadness, +Estranged from hope and gladness, + In this fast fading year. +Ye with o'er-burdened mind +Made aliens from your kind, + Come gather here. + + + + +Let not the useless sorrow +Pursue you night and morrow, + If e'er you hoped--hope now-- +Take heart: uncloud your faces, +And join in our embraces + Under the holly bough. + +_Charles Mackay, LL. D._ + +[Illustration] + + + + +Come all you weary wanderers + Beneath the wintry sky, +This day forget your worldly cares, + And lay your sorrows by: + Awake and sing + The church bells ring, +For this is Christmas morning! + +With grateful hearts salute the morn, + And swell the streams of song, +That laden with great joy are borne, + The willing air along; + The tidings thrill + With right good will, +For this is Christmas morning! + +We'll twine the fresh green holly wreath, + And make the yule-log glow; +And gather gaily underneath + The winking mistletoe; + All blythe and bright + By the glad fire light, +For this is Christmas morning! + +Come, sing the carols old and true, + That mind us of good cheer, +And like a heavenly fall of dew, + Revive the drooping year, + And fill us up + A wassail cup, +For this is Christmas morning! + + + + +In the rush of the merry morning + When the red burns through the gray, +And the wintry world lies waiting + For the glory of the day; +Then we hear a fitful rushing + Just without upon the stair, +See two white phantoms coming, + Catch the gleam of sunny hair. + +Are they Christmas fairies stealing + Rows of little socks to fill? +Are they angels floating hither + With their message of good-will? +What sweet spell are these elves weaving, + As like larks they chirp and sing? +Are these palms of peace from heaven + That these lovely spirits bring? + +Rosy feet upon the threshold, + Eager faces peeping through, +With the first red ray of sunshine, + Chanting cherubs come in view; +Mistletoe and gleaming holly, + Symbols of a blessed day, +In their chubby hands they carry, + Streaming all along the way. + + + + +[Illustration] + +Well we know them, never weary + Of their innocent surprise: +Waiting, watching, listening always + With full hearts and tender eyes, +While our little household angels, + White and golden in the sun, +Greet us with the sweet old welcome,-- + "Merry Christmas, every one!" + +_Unknown._ + + + + +Christmas is here; + Winds whistle shrill, + Icy and chill, +Little care we; + Little we fear + Weather without, + Sheltered about +The mahogany tree. + +Once on the boughs + Birds of rare plume + Sang in its bloom; +Night-birds are we; + Here we carouse, + Singing, like them, + Perched round the stem +Of the jolly old tree. + +Here let us sport, + Boys, as we sit; + Laughter and wit +Flashing so free. + Life is but short-- + When we are gone, + Let them sing on, +Round the old tree. + + + + +[Illustration] + +Evenings we knew, + Happy as this; + Faces we miss, +Pleasant to see. + Kind hearts and true, + Gentle and just, + Peace to your dust +We sing round the tree. + +Care, like a dun, + Lurks at the gate: + Let the dog wait; +Happy we'll be! + Drink, every one; + Pile up the coals, + Fill the red bowls, +Round the old tree! + +[Illustration] + +Drain we the cup,-- + Friend, art afraid? + Spirits are laid +In the Red Sea. + Mantle it up; + Empty it yet; + Let us forget, +Round the old tree. + +Sorrows, begone! + Life and its ills, + Duns and their bills, +Bid me to flee. + Come with the dawn, + Blue-devil sprite, + Leave us to-night, +Round the old tree. + +_W. M. Thackeray._ + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + +Neath Mistletoe, should chance arise, +You may be happy if you're wise! +Though bored you lie with Pantomime +And Christmas fare and Christmas rhyme-- +One fine old custom don't despise. + +If you're a man of enterprise +You'll find, I venture to surmise, +'Tis pleasant then at Christmas-time + 'Neath Mistletoe! + +You see they scarcely can disguise +The sparkle of their pretty eyes; +And no one thinks it is a crime, +When goes the merry Christmas chime, +A rare old rite to exercise + 'Neath Mistletoe! + +_J. Ashby Sterry._ + + + + +Mist and cloud and darkness + Veil the wintry hour, +But the sun dispels them + With his rising power. + +Mist and cloud and darkness + Often dim thy day +But a Christmas glory + Shines upon thy way. + +May the Lord of Christmas, + Counsellor and Friend, +Light thy desert pathway + Even to the end. + +_F. R. 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