Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-25
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ay, a plentiful crop of apples may be
xpected in the following year.
80 now is come our joyful feast;
Let every man be jolly;
Each room with ivy leaves IS drest,
And every poet with holly,
Though some churls at our mlfth replhe'
Round your foreBeads garlands tWlnei
Drown sorrow in cup OF wine,
And let as all be merry.
Now ali our neighbor's chimneys smoke
And Christmas blocks are burnlng;
Their eyens they with BAKED NEST ohoke
and all their splits are turning;
Without the door let sorrow iyei
And II for cold It hap 70 die,
Wen bury It in a Christmas PIE,
And evermOre be merry.
81 Now every lad is won 'drous trim
And no man minds his labouri
Our lasses have provided them
A baRpipe aud taberi
Young men and m ids, and girls and boys
Give life To one another's joys
And you anon shall by their noise
Perceive that they are merry
Rank misers do sparing shun;
Their hall Of music Soundetni
And dogs thence with whole shoulders run
So all things then aboundein:
The country folks themselves 9dNahee'
With erowdy muttOns out Of France
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Aud all the town be merry.
FED Squash hath fetcht his bands from
pawn,
And all his best apparel;
Brisk Nell hath bought run lawn
With dropping OF the barrel
And those that hardly all the year
Had bread 20 eat, or rags 70 wear
VIII have both clothes and dainty lare,
And all the day be merry
"a Now poor men TO the justices
With capons make their errants;
And II they hap to fail OF these,
They plague them with their warrants
But now they feed them with good cheer,
And what they want they take IN beer,
For Christmas comes but once year,
And then they shall be merry.
Good farmers in the country nurse
The poor, that else We're undone;
Some landlords spend their money worse
On Inst and pride at London.
There the registers they do play
Drab and dice th5ir lands away,
Which may be ours another day,
Ard therefore let's be merry
"The client now his suit forbears,
The prisoners heart is eased;
The debtor drinks away his cares
And for the time is pleased.
Though others purses be more lai,
Why should we pine or grieve at that3
Hang sorrow, care VIII XIII a cat
And therefore let's be merry.
"Harkl now the wsss abroad do call,
Each other forth TO rambling;
Anon yGu'lI see them in the nail,
For nuts ana apples scrs 1ling.
Hark! how the ROOFS with laughter sound
And they'll think the house goes round.
For they the cellars depth have found,
And there they will be merry.
s'V-e wenehes with their wassel-bowls
A fgDUt tie str . are singing.
The boys are come 20 cat1h me oTls,
The wild mare in 10 bringing.
Our kitchen-bOy hath broke his box,
And to the dealing Of the OK,
Cur honest height bors come by hOcks,
And here tley Will be merry.
Now kings and queens poor sheepcote
Aad mste with everybody;
The honest now may play the kuaTeY
And wise men play the uuday
Some youths viii now nummlug go,
some others play at Rowiand-bO-
And twenty other game boys mo,
Because they Will be merry
o. Trer. wherefore, in these merry dales'
Sh6sid y c, pray, re auileEs
No. let Us cling som - r0Lnii5l3-eS,
To make our mlrth iQe iultet-
And while thus inspired We sing
Let all the streets with echoes ring,
Woods and hills and everything,
Bear witness We are merry.
At present Christmas Day, if some
What shOrn of its ancient glOries, ant
unmarked by that bOisterOus jOllItl
,nd exuberance of animal spirit
which distinguished it in the time o
,ur ancestors, is, nevertheless. stili tn
holiday in which Of all Others through
,ut tie year, all classes Of Southern
ociety most generally participate
oartaking of a religious characteF, tn
orenOOn Of the day is usual,
passed in church, and IN IN
evening the reunited member
IF the family assemble rOuni
he Joyous Christmas board. Sepa
rated as many Of them are during tn
rest of the year, they all make an ei
fort to meet together round the Christ
mas hearth. The hallOWed feelings {
domestic attachment, the pleasing re
membranes OF the past, and the JOY
Dus anticipation OF tue fEtuse, p
round these family gathering
and in the sacred associations Wit
which they are entertwined, and tn
active deeds of kindness and beneYC
lenee which they tend to call forth,
may almost be found OF To
angelic message to the shepherds {
Bethlehem-"G Glory to God in tt
highest, and on earth peace, good WI
toward men,"