The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-25

-T The stars look down on roofess halle.
At every board vaoans chair
Fills with quick teara some tender eye,
And at our rnaddest sporhs appear
Those wel.loved forms that will not die.
We Lift the glass, our hand Is gtayed-Z
We Jest spectre rises
And weeping, though no word Is said.
We kiss and pass the silent cup, ='
And pledge the gallant friend who keeps
His Ohristmas.eve on Malvern's height
l8s And him. our fair-haired boy, who sleeps
Beneath Virginian SHOWS tonight
While by the fire, she, musing, oroooS
On all that was and might have been,
II Shiloh dank and o0zing woods
Had never drunk that crimson staan
5 happy Jules Of buried years
Gould ye but come in wonted guise,
Sweet as loves earliest kss appears,
~ When looking back through wlsttul eyes
Would seem those chimes whose voices tell
His birth night with melodious burst,
Who, sitting by samaris's we'll
Cuenched the lorn widows lifelong thirst
All yet trust that all who weep,
Somewhere, at last, will surely find
His rest If through dark ways they keep
The ohild.lke faith, the prayerful mind;
And some far Christmas morn shall bring
From human ills sHe-t release
To loving hearts, while angels sing
..Peace and good will good will and peace =sii.
Our next selection, though in different strain
and temper, is no less exquisite in grace, senta
ment and general beauty. It is from another OF
our native poets, HENRY TImRoD, ESQ.,, and is
worthy OF our ancient city in its palmiest days:
CHRIsTMAa
- BIZ HHHRY TndRoD, OF SOUTH oARoIlhA
How grace this hallowed day? .Z.
Shall happy bells, from yonder ancient sptre,
Send their glad greetings to each Christmas fire
Round which the children plAy Z5z
Alasl for many moon.
That tongueless tower hath oea7eo the 1aooaa aA1'
oho1foh hof ~
Beneath an Arctic noon.
Shame to the foes that drown z Y; ..3z. t.
Our psalms Of worship With their insPi@s RI % t,zp'a
The sweetest chimes In all the Land he dumb
In some far rustic town.
There. Let us think, they keep,
q 9s dead ssbss xsi ssh a ed %s s
Some echoes In their sleep. =.==
How shall NO grace the dayf
With feast and song, and dance, and antique spees.
And shout Of happy children in the courts.
And tales Of ghost and fsys .''{
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asss Nns al as Ga 1oana q oy
Gould enter 20 OF yorof =
Would not some palid face
Dread shapes Of battle in the wassau sup,
And trouble all the plseof
How could We bear the mirsh, .s5=#..
Xasp. as now beneath u.
In cold Virginian earthl 5=s-.ta ,.ta
How shau ve grace the dsgt, Il ~ -; -
,Ahi let sha Thought that on this holy 81
The Prince Of Pesce-ths Prince Of Peace we bora
Employ ps while aye ve Rfsyl z. s.sss
4 3 Pray foor the peaug WINCH long
Hath left this tortured land, and haply now
Holds It's white court on some far mountains ssove
. There hardly cafe nom wrong
Let every sacred fans
ca. It's sd yoasss to the the shrine tbs 9sn,d Of asa
Join In one solemn strain
With pomp Of Roman form.
with the crave ritual brought from England's shers.
And with the simple faith which asks no nors
Than that the heart be warm.
He. who till time shall cease,
Shall watch that earth, where once not III In vain
He died to give US peace. win not disd1n
a prayer whose theme ts-peacs
Perhaps, ere yet the spring ==s#f
Hath died into tho summer, over all
Thu lsni the peace Of Bis vast love shau faa
Like some protesting wing sZ=
Oh. ponder what It meansl
Oh Riye the vision and the fancy pleys
And shape the coming scenes
Peace in the quiet dsles, .Esz,zs===5=
Made rapkly fertile By the blood Of men;
Peace in the woodland, and the lonely glsn,
Peace In the peopled valesl 5=
Peace in the crowded town,
Peaca in q thousand fields Of waving grain.
Paace In the highway and the fowery lanes
Peace on the w1nd-swept down!
Peace on the furfhest Bea4 4.=e
Peaoe In our sheltered bays and ample streanna
Peace whsresoe'er our starry garland CLEANS.
And peace in every breeze
Peace on the whirring marts,
Pence where the scholar thinks, the hunter roama.
Pease God of Peacal poace, peaoe In all our homes,
And peace In all our heartsl