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    Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse
    Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse
    Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse
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    Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse

    By Florence Edith Storer and Eugene Field

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse - Florence Edith Storer

      Project Gutenberg's Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse, by Eugene Field

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      Title: Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse

      Author: Eugene Field

      Illustrator: Florence Storer

      Release Date: January 29, 2006 [EBook #17630]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHRISTMAS TALES AND ***

      Produced by Jason Isbell, Sankar Viswanathan, and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      CHRISTMAS

      TALES AND

      CHRISTMAS

      VERSE

      BY

      EUGENE FIELD

      ILLUSTRATIONS BY FLORENCE STORER

      NEW YORK

      CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

      MCMXII

      Copyright, 1912, by

      Charles Scribner's Sons

      Published October, 1912

      Why do the bells of Christmas ring?

      Why do little children sing?

      Once a lovely shining star,

      Seen by shepherds from afar,

      Gently moved until its light

      Made a manger's cradle bright.

      There a darling baby lay,

      Pillowed soft upon the hay;

      And its mother sung and smiled:

      This is Christ, the holy Child!

      Therefore bells for Christmas ring,

      Therefore little children sing.

      CONTENTS

      FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

      IN COLORS

      IN BLACK-AND-WHITE

      Sing, O my heart!

      Sing thou in rapture this dear morn

      Whereon the blessed Prince is born!

      Sing, Christmas bells!

      Say to the earth this is the morn

      Whereon our Savior-King is born;

      Sing to all men,—the bond, the free,

      The rich, the poor, the high, the low,

      The little child that sports in glee,

      The aged folk that tottering go,—

      Proclaim the morn

      That Christ is born,

      That saveth them and saveth me!

      Sing, angel host!

      Sing of the star that God has placed

      Above the manger in the East;

      Sing of the glories of the night,

      The virgin's sweet humility,

      The Babe with kingly robes bedight,—

      Sing to all men where'er they be

      This Christmas morn;

      For Christ is born,

      That saveth them and saveth me!

      Sing, sons of earth!

      O ransomed seed of Adam, sing!

      God liveth, and we have a king!

      The curse is gone, the bond are free—

      By Bethlehem's star that brightly beamed,

      By all the heavenly signs that be,

      We know that Israel is redeemed;

      That on this morn

      The Christ is born

      That saveth you and saveth me!

      Sing, O my heart!

      Sing thou in rapture this dear morn

      Whereon the blessed Prince is born!

      And as thy songs shall be of love,

      So let my deeds be charity

      By the dear Lord that reigns above,

      By Him that died upon the tree,

      By this fair morn

      Whereon is born

      The Christ that saveth all and me!

      THE SYMBOL AND THE SAINT

      Once upon a time a young man made ready for a voyage. His name was Norss; broad were his shoulders, his cheeks were ruddy, his hair was fair and long, his body betokened strength, and good-nature shone from his blue eyes and lurked about the corners of his mouth.

      Where are you going? asked his neighbor Jans, the forge-master.

      I am going sailing for a wife, said Norss.

      For a wife, indeed! cried Jans. And why go you to seek her in foreign lands? Are not our maidens good enough and fair enough, that you must need search for a wife elsewhere? For shame, Norss! for shame!

      But Norss said: A spirit came to me in my dreams last night and said, 'Launch the boat and set sail to-morrow. Have no fear; for I will guide you to the bride that awaits you.' Then, standing there, all white and beautiful, the spirit held forth a symbol—such as I had never before seen—in the figure of a cross, and the spirit said: 'By this symbol shall she be known to you.'

      If this be so, you must need go, said Jans. But are you well victualled? Come to my cabin, and let me give you venison and bear's meat.

      Norss shook his head. The spirit will provide, said he. I have no fear, and I shall take no care, trusting in the spirit.

      So Norss pushed his boat down the beach into the sea, and leaped into the boat, and unfurled the sail to the wind. Jans stood wondering on the beach, and watched the boat speed out of

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