Middletown transcript., 1870-12-24
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EVE.
They say tonight Is Christmas Eve, and, high
as could reach, ire Nil'3a iiG
I've hung my stockings on the wall, and left q
kiss on each.
I've left a kiss on each for Him who'll fill my
/, stockings quite; -
He never came before, but o, I'm sure He will
'ti tonight. sasiNa h84ii Hs nt
And to-morrow'll Il be the day our blessed Christ
Who came on earth to pity me, whom many
n, others scorn.
And why II is they treat me so indeed cannot
M tell
But while love Him next to you, then all seems
wise and well. 'ss
long have looked for Christmas, Mother
waited all the year;
And very strange ii is indeed to feel its dawn
so near; AZ ISL, A8G3s3se
But to-morrow'li be the day SO have prayed
to see, NJ ssif$. M at5jsiss'-i ~ T.
And ! long to sleep and wake, and find what it
will bring to me.
The snow is in the street, and through the win
dow all the day
I've watched the little children pass they seemed
so glad and gar
And gaily did they talk about the gifts they
would receiver
0, all the world is glad tonight, for this is
Christmas Eyei
And, Mother on the cold, cold floor I've put my
little shoe isls8 a
The others torn scross the toe, and things
might there slip through;
Ive set my little shoe, Mother, and it for you
shall be,
For know that He'll remember you while He
remembers me. ia 7t44
So lay me in my bed, Mother, and hear my
prayers Alright, =
lie never came before, but o, I'm sure He will
tonight.
MIDNIGHT. VII
Mother, is 1t morning yet? dreamed that it
was here;
thought the sun shone through the pane, SO
blessed and SO clear.
dreamed my little stockings there were full as
they could hold,
But IT'S hardly morning yet, Mother--it is SO
dark and cold.
dreamed the bells rang from the church where
the happy people go, a.
And they rang goodwill to all men in q Ian
guage that know. S
thought took from off the wall my little
stockings there,
And on the floor empticd them-such sights
there never were
A doll was 10 there, meant for me, just like
those little girls
Who always turn away from me; and O, IT
had such curls
kissed it on its painted cheek my own are
not so sweet,
Though people used 10 stop to pat and praise
ssihem in the street.
And, Mother, there were many things that would
have pleased you too;
FOR He who had remembered me had not forgot
ten you. VIZ
But only dreamed twas morning, and yet Ills
Though well know that Hc will come before
the early day
10 will put my dream aside, though I.know
And sleep, and dream my dream again, and rise
at morn with you.
CHRISTMAS MORN.
THE MOTHER.
All night huve ] walked with weeping till the
bells are ringing wild,
All night have walked with my sorrow, and
lainin my tears, like child.
'or over against the wall as empty as they can
be-
The limp little stockings hang, aud my heart is
& breaking in mel
four vision was false as the world, o darling
dreamer and dear
and how can bear you to wake, and find no
Christmas here
letter you and were asleep in the slumber
whence none may start.
And 0, those empty stockings could fill them
out of my heartl
No Christmas for you or for me, darling; your
kisses were all in vain
have given your kisses back to you over and
over again;
have folded You to my breast with 4 moaning
no one hears M
four heart is happy in dreams, though your hair
is damp with my tears
ann out Of heart and hope; am almost out
of my mind
The world Is cruel.and cold, and only Christ is
kind;
Ind much must be horne and forborne; but the
heaviest burden of all
That ever hath lain on my life are those little
light things on the wall.
lush, Bells, you'll waken my dreamer o child
ren so full of cheer
'e little less glad going by, there hath been
no Christmas here. f7
10 tenderly over the stones, o light feet tripping
a time
he slighsed thing sleeps in my arms--she' II
waken too soon, too soon ,i43
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