ce As Related in Prose and Verse

Edited by

ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER

[Illustration]

New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
1968

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Copyright 1907 by
Dodd, Mead & Company

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CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

I
ORIGIN

Is There a Santa Claus?............... _F.P. Church_
O Little Town of Bethlehem............ _Phillips Brooks_
The Glad Evangel...................... _Kate Douglas Wiggin_
The Shepherds......................... _William Drummond_
A Christmas Carol..................... _James Russell Lowell_
A Christmas Hymn...................... _Alfred Domett_
Sons of the Morning................... _Reginald Heber_
God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen.......... _Dinah Maria Mulock_
The Christmas Silence................. _Margaret Deland_
A Christmas Lullaby................... _John Addington Symonds_
Hymn for the Nativity................. _Edward Thring_
Masters in this Hall................... _Anonymous_
The Adoration of the Wise Men......... _Cecil Frances Alexander_
The Shepherds in Judea................ _Mary Austin_
Christmas Carol....................... _James S. Park_
Neighbors of the Christ Night......... _Nora Archibald Smith_
Cradle Hymn........................... _Isaac Watts_
An Ode on the Birth of Our Saviour.... _Robert Herrick_
Christmas Song........................ _Edmund Hamilton Sears_
A Hymn on the Nativity of My Saviour.. _Ben Jonson_
The Shepherd's Song................... _Edmund Bolton_
A Christmas Carol..................... _Aubrey de Vere_
A Christmas Hymn...................... _Anon_
Christmas Day......................... _Charles Wesley_
Christmas............................. _Anonymous_
Christmas............................. _Nahum Tate_
"While Shepherds Watched
Their Flocks by Night"............. _Margaret Deland_
Colonial Christmases.................. _Alice Morse Earle_
The Angels............................ _William Drummond_
Hymn for Christmas.................... _Felicia Hemans_
New Prince, New Pomp.................. _Robert Southwell_
The Three Kings....................... _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_
Hymn on the Nativity.................. _John Milton_

II
CELEBRATION

Christmas Eve at Mr. Wardle's......... _Charles D