The Christmas dinner, from "The sketch book" |
The Christmas Dinner
FROM “THE SKETCH BOOK”
BY WASHINGTON
IRVING
NEW YORK
WILLIAM EDWIN RUDGE
1923
Lo! now is come our joyful’st feast!
Let every man be jolly;
Eache roome with yvie leaves is drest,
And every post with holly.
Now all our neighbours’ chimneys smoke,
And Christmas blocks are burning;
Their ovens they with bak’t meats choke,
And all their spits are turning.
Without the door let sorrow lie,
And if, for cold, it hap to die,
We’ll bury’t in a Christmas pye,
And evermore be merry.
Withers’ “Juvenilla.”
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