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OLD CAROL
--ANONYMOUS
THE LAMB CHILD
STAR high
Baby low:
'Twixt the two
Wise men go;
Find the baby,
Grasp the star
Heirs of all things
Near and far!
--GEORGE MACDONALD
--GEORGE MACDONALD
THE LAMB
--WILLIAM BLAKE
SONG
--EUGENE FIELD
THE HOLLY
He has beamed all the year, but bright scarlet he'll glow
When the ground glitters white with the fresh fallen snow.
--EDITH KING
CAROL
--WILLIAM CANTON
SHEPHERD'S SONG
--TRADITIONAL
A CRADLE SONG
--WILLIAM BLAKE
THE BIRDS
WHEN Jesus Christ was four years old,
The angels brought Him toys of gold,
Which no man ever had bought or sold.
--HILAIRE BELLOC
CHRISTMAS EVE
A CHRISTMAS PRAYER
--GEORGE MACDONALD
I. THE GUESTS
II. COCKADOODLEDOO!
COCKADOODLEDOO!
Our Lady's lost her shoe,
St. Joseph's lost his lantern,
What will they do?
The Child will be both Shoes and Staff
And a Lantern too.
In the dark night He'll be their Light.
And their Guide so true
Cockadoodledoo!
--R. L. GALES
CRADLE HYMN
--MARTIN LUTHER
--KATHARINE TYNAN
IN THE NIGHT
--C. BAIN
"MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB"
--M. NIGHTINGALE
BETHLEHEM
--KATHARINE TYNAN
--R. L. GALES
--ROBERT SOUTHWELL
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
--G. K. CHESTERTON
EX ORE INFANTIUM
--FRANCIS THOMPSON
A SONG OF CHRISTMAS
THE Christmas moon shines clear and right;
There were poor travellers such a night
Had neither fire nor candle-light.
--KATHARINE TYNAN
--TRADITIONAL
A CRADLE HYMN
--ISAAC WATTS
BEFORE DAWN
--WALTER DE LA MARE
THE WAITS
--M. NIGHTINGALE
IN PRAESEPIO
--R. L. GALES
--TRADITIONAL
--RICHARD MIDDLETON
--EUGENE FIELD
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
--CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
YULE-TIDE FIRES
--ELEANOR FARJEON
--GEORGE MACDONALD
CHRISTMAS
--ROBERT HERRICK
--ROBERT HERRICK
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
--ROBERT HERRICK
THE OXEN
CHRISTMAS Eve, and twelve of the clock.
"Now they are all on their knees,"
An elder said as we sat in a flock
By the embers in hearthside ease.
--THOMAS HARDY
--OLD CAROL
NOEL
II
III
Poor folk that may my carol hear
(The bells ring single and the bells ring clear),
See! God's one child had hardest cheer!
(Carillon, Carilla).
Men grown hard on a Christmas morn;
The dumb beast by and a babe forlorn.
It was very, very cold when our Lord was born.
And the small child Jesus smile on you.
IV
--HILAIRE BELLOC
Sudden as sweet
Come the expected feet;
All joy is young, and new all art,
And He, too, whom we have by heart.
--ALICE MEYNELL
VERSES FROM THE SHEPHERD'S HYMN
--JOHN MILTON
--RICHARD CRAWSHAW
--ALFRED TENNYSON
END
ANONYMOUS
Old Carol
Shepherd's Song
The Cherry-Tree Carol
The Holly and the Ivy
The Three Ships
When Christ Was Born
Yule-Tide Fires
BAIN, C.
In the Night
BELLOC, HILAIRE
The Birds
Noel
BLAKE, WILLIAM
A Cradle Song The Lamb
CANTON, WILLIAM
Carol
CHESTERTON, G. K.
A Christmas Carol
CRASHAW, RICHARD
Verses from The Shepherd's Hymn
DE LA MARE, WALTER
Before Dawn
FIELD, EUGENE
From The Complete Poems of Eugene Field (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field. Published by
Charles Scribner's Sons)
Song
Star of the East
FARJEON, ELEANOR
Six Green Singers
GALES, R. L.
Three Christmas Songs
I. The Guests
II. Cockadoodledoo
III. A Childermas Rhyme
Waiting for the Kings
In Praesepio
HARDY, THOMAS
The Oxen
HERRICK, ROBERT
A Christmas Carol
An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour
To His Saviour, A Child; A Present By a Child
KING, EDITH
The Holly
LUTHER, MARTIN
Cradle Hymn
MACDONALD, GEORGE
A Christmas Prayer
Christmas Day and Every Day
The Christmas Child
That Holy Thing
MEYNELL, ALICE
Unto Us a Son Is Given
MIDDLETON, RICHARD
The Carol of the Poor Children
MILTON, JOHN
From the "Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity"
NIGHTINGALE, M.
Mary Had a Little Lamb
The Waits
ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA
A Christmas Carol
SOUTHWELL, ROBERT
Behold a Silly Tender Babe
TENNYSON, ALFRED
From In Memoriam
The Bells
THOMPSON, FRANCIS
Ex Ore Infantium
TYNAN, KATHARINE
A Song of Christmas
A Song of the Season
Bethlehem
WATTS, ISAAC
A Cradle Hymn
YOUNG, E. HILTON
Christmas