Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 277
Christmas carols, Of quaint old melody,And let the days be filled with praise, With mirth and jollity;For we have passed from neath the pall Of gloomy, black November,Now rules the month that s best of all, The bluff old king, December! So bring ye in the boars head, With bays and garlands crowned… … mm WHAT I LIKE BEST TO DRAW. BY FRANCES KOEUING, AGE 17. Then reign, thou Lord of Misrule, With all thy merry band ;And kiss below the mistletoe The fairest in the land.Till on the hearth the ashes fall, The Yule logs dying ember,Come, hail the month that s best of all, The bluff old king, December…
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