 | The poetical works of Samuel Woodworth |  |
CHRISTMAS GAMBOLS.
Hail the season of joy and festivity,
Social pleasures and innocent mirth,
Consecrated by Mercy's Nativity,
Bliss angelical granted to earth!
Tempests of winter the forests may splinter,
But never can stint or embitter our cheer,
While love's soft wishes still sweeten our dishes,
On merry Christmas and happy New Year.
Social pleasures and innocent mirth,
Consecrated by Mercy's Nativity,
Bliss angelical granted to earth!
Tempests of winter the forests may splinter,
But never can stint or embitter our cheer,
While love's soft wishes still sweeten our dishes,
On merry Christmas and happy New Year.
Hark! the merry bells, chiming from Trinity,
Charm the ear with their musical din,
Telling all, throughout the vicinity,
Holyday gambols are now to begin:
Friends and relations, with fond salutations,
And warm gratulations, together appear;
While lovers and misses, with holyday kisses,
Greet merry Christmas and happy New Year.
Charm the ear with their musical din,
Telling all, throughout the vicinity,
Holyday gambols are now to begin:
Friends and relations, with fond salutations,
And warm gratulations, together appear;
While lovers and misses, with holyday kisses,
Greet merry Christmas and happy New Year.
Gratitude, united with piety,
Bids each bosom with rapture to glow,
Pleasures, tempered with cheerful sobriety,
“Light up smiles in the aspect of wo:”
Sires and mothers, meet sisters and brothers,
And mingle with others, in festival cheer:
And friends, long parted, assemble, light-hearted,
On merry Christmas and happy New Year.
Bids each bosom with rapture to glow,
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“Light up smiles in the aspect of wo:”
Sires and mothers, meet sisters and brothers,
And mingle with others, in festival cheer:
And friends, long parted, assemble, light-hearted,
On merry Christmas and happy New Year.
Now commences the infantile revelry,
Happy urchins the story believe,
That Santa Claus, since ages of chivalry,
Visits the nursery on holyday eve.
Socks, intended for gifts, are suspended,
And mystic rites blended, the fancy to cheer,
While sweet snap-dragon, exhausts the full flagon,
Each merry Christmas and happy New Year.
Happy urchins the story believe,
That Santa Claus, since ages of chivalry,
Visits the nursery on holyday eve.
Socks, intended for gifts, are suspended,
And mystic rites blended, the fancy to cheer,
While sweet snap-dragon, exhausts the full flagon,
Each merry Christmas and happy New Year.
Then hail the season of joy and festivity,
Social pleasures, and innocent mirth!
Which smooths the path of age's declivity,
And gives to infancy Eden on earth;
When Plenty her treasure bestows without measure,
And innocent Pleasure pursues her career;
While Love's soft wishes still sweeten our dishes,
On merry Christmas and happy New Year.
Social pleasures, and innocent mirth!
Which smooths the path of age's declivity,
And gives to infancy Eden on earth;
When Plenty her treasure bestows without measure,
And innocent Pleasure pursues her career;
While Love's soft wishes still sweeten our dishes,
On merry Christmas and happy New Year.
| The poetical works of Samuel Woodworth | |