Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 289
k, both old and young,To see the gifts its limbs adorn And chime the song their fathers sung— A Merry Christmas unto you!And Alice Goddard Waldo, with these strong lines :On the summit of the treeBeams a star in purity ;Little candles, down below,Oer the branches cast a glow.Perhaps Eleanor Holmess… … BY J. W. NICHOLSON, JR. And also, a little later,she tells us how Merry Christmas! theycried. Hurrah forSt. Nick! But mama said, Yourhair! Oh, my chil-dren, run quick ! These stanzas fromAlice Genivieve Cranespoem are tender andsweet: This year I thought I could not bear To have a Christmas tree…
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