A Gentle Reminder
Something new about Christmas?
Why, what were half so sweet
As the old, old way of keeping
The day our glad hearts greet?
The old, old chimes are dearest;
The old, old songs are best;
It’s the old, old gladness welling
Within each joyous breast.
Then my little lad said slyly,
“Remember, if that’s true,
That your old, old way, mamma dear,
Was to […]
Bells Across the Snow
This poem may be recited by one pupil, or divided as follows:
First pupil:
Christmas, merry Christmas!
Is it really come again?
With its memories and greetings,
With its joys and with its pain
There’s a minor in the carol,
And a shadow in the light,
And a spray of cypress twining
With the holly wreath tonight.
And the hush is […]
Christmas Time
Christmas time for boys and girls
Is a happy day,
For we go to grandmamma’s
And eat and sing and play.
Grandma does not say to us—
“Stop that horrid noise,”
‘Cause she understands we can’t,
When we’re “only boys.”
And she lets the girls play house,
In the garret old,
And when they strew things around,
Grandma doesn’t scold.
But we ought to pick them […]