Our American Holidays - Christmas

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Our American Holidays - Christmas
by Robert Haven Schauffler

1949

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CONTENTS

Preface
Introduction

I
ORIGIN

**Table of contents**
Title	Page
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 Gentleman . . Dinah Maria Mulock The Christmas Silence . . Margaret Deland A Christmas Lullaby . . John Addington Symonds Hymn for the Nativity . . Edward Thring Masters in the Hall . . Anonymous Is there . . Cecil Frances Alexander The Shepherds in Judea . . Mary Austin Christmas Carol . . James S. Park Neighbors of the Christ Night . . Nora Archibald Smith Cradle Hymn . . Issac Watts	3 5 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 18 20 21 23 24 25

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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 . . Anonymous
Christmas Day . . Charles Wesley
Christmas . . Anonymous
Christmas . . Nahum Tate
"While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night" . . Margaret Deland
The Star Song . . Robert Herrick
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 Dickens
A Visit from St. Nicholas . . Clement C. Moore
A Christmas Piece . . Fred S. Cozzens
Wassailer's Song . . Robert Southwell
Christmas Eve . . Hamilton Wright Mabie
Christmas in the Olden Time . . Walter Scott
Sly Santa Claus . . Mrs. C. S. Stone
The Waits . . Margaret Deland
The Knighting of the Sirloin . . Anonymous
The Christmas Goose at the Cratchits’ . . Charles Dickens

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God Bless Us Every One . .James Whitcomb Riley
Bells Across the Snow . . Frances Ridley Havergal
Christmas Bells . . Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Minstrels and Maids . . . . . William Morris
Inexhaustibility of the Subject of Christmas . . J .Leigh Hunt
Song of the Holly . . . . William Shakespeare
Under the Holly-Bough . . . . Charles Mackay
Ceremonies for Christmas . . . . Robert Herrick
Santa Claus . . . Anonymous
The Ceremonies for Christmas Day . . Robert Herrick
December . . Harriet F. Blodgett
The Festival of St. Nicholas . .Mary Mapes Dodge
The Christmas Holly . . . Eliza Cook
To the Fir-Tree . . . From the German
The Mahogany-Tree . . William Makepeace Thackeray
Christmas . . Washington Irving
Church Decking At Christmas . . .William Wordsworth
So, Now is Come Our Joyful’st Feast . . George Wither
Fairy Faces . . . . Anonymous
Merry Christmas . . Anonymous
A Merry Christmas to You . . Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
Christmas Bells . . Anonymous
The Birth of Christ . . . . . Alfred Tennyson
The Christmas Carol . . . William Wordsworth
Christmas At Fezziwig’s Warehouse . .Charles Dickens
Christmas Bells . . .., John Keble

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III

SIGNIFICANCE AND SPIRIT

A Christmas Carmen . . . . John G. Whittier
The Spirit of Christmas . . . . Charles Dickens
On Good Wishes At Christmas . . . . . Friswell
A Christmas Song . . . . William Cox Bennett
Sery . . ...... Richard Watson Gilder
A Christmas Song . . . . . . Tudor Jenks
Christmas . . ....... Alexander Smith
Christmas Carol . . ..... Phillips Brooks
The End of the Play . . William Makepeace Thackeray
Christ’s Natiivty . . .... Henry Vaughan
Christmas Dreams . . . . . Christopher North
Keeping Christmas . . .... Henry Van Dyke
Mark Well My Heavy, Doleful Tale . . .......... Anonymous
A Christmas Carol . . . . . Christina G. Rossetti
The Glorious Song of Old . . . Edmund H. Sears
A Christmas Carol for Children . .......... Martin Luther
On Santa Claus . . . . . George A. Baker.
A Christmas Carol . . ...... Josiah Gilbert Holland
An Offertory . . ..... Mary Mapes Dodge
Christmas Song . . ,... Lydia A. C. Ward
A Christmas Carol . . .... Christian Burke
A Simple Bill of Fare for a Christmas Dinner . . ............ H. H.
A Ballade of Old Loves . . . . Carolyn Wells
Ballade of Christmas Ghosts . . . Andrew Lang
Hang Up the Baby’s Stocking . . ......
The Newest Thing in Christmas Carols . . ......... Anonymous
A Christmas Letter From Australia . . ......... Douglas Sladen
Christmas . . ...... Rose Terry Cooke

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IV STORIES

The Fir Tree . . . . Hans Christian Andersen
Little Roger’s Night in the Church . .......... Susan Coolidge
Mr. Bluff’s Experiences of Holidays . . ........ Oliver Bell Bunce
Santa Claus At Simpson’s Bar . . . Bret Harte

V OLD CAROLS AND EXERCISES

God Rest You Merry Gentlemen . . .....
Old Christmas Returned . . .......
Christmas Carol . . ..........
In Excelsis Gloria . . ..........
The Boar’s Head Carol . . .......
Christmas Carol . . ..........

ADDITIONAL PIECES

A Christmas Insurrection . . . . Anne P. L. Field
The Night After Christmas . . . Anne P. L. Field
When the Stars of Morning Sang . . .......... Anne P. L. Field
A Prayer at Bethlehem . . . . Anne P. L. Field
The Christmas Fires . . . . . Anne P. L. Field
The Mother (A Story) . . Robert Haven Schauffler

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