Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-01-09
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8
Poetry.

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Poetry.
THE SEARCH FOR ,SANTi CLAUS
An Original Poem
READ AT THE cHRisrMAs ANNIVERSARIES OF SOUTH
wARpsnoRo AND WEST DOVER SUNDAY SCHOOLS,
DC "a AND 25, 1873.
BY REV. o. c. D1cKERsoN.
Throngs! songs smiles! toys
What mean they, boys'
q, "Santa ClausM
SO he's the cause?
"And Christmas, sir" these girls laugh back
But holdl you know
My brain works slow,
Aud I've asked mtH
How, where aud when
This children's friend first found his Pack?
Let me tell you my wake-dream. The night waH Just
gone
And the first bell had awakcd mo in calling up john
"Bc Cbri tmas tomorrow" thought as lay;
And those children have waited month for tho day
Santa Claus mustn't fail them; he never has yet"
Johns FIRE was now filling the wide chimney Hue,
Whom suddenly, wider the space round 1t grew,
And the chairs shot up desks of pattern unknown,
While the flames became old aud were fashioned
thronc
There came ourcu
The dazzling sheen
ofwhose array
Outshone the day
w.'h her cour,ly throng pressed near.
The space though wide
On every lide,
From wall 10 wall,
All down the hall
Was hllcd All. what a sight was thcrc.
In mute wonder noted their movements their dress;
And believe me, no "orss could their quain'ncss et-
press
As strange too, their faces the stations they h!ed
And That driII Ia which all seemed so woudrousy
skilled.
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Thc!r music rare
Poured on the air
In such control
Il called the roll
OF d.leeatc, ly Grade and rink
PHILOSOPHERS
ofau degrees,
Science and art
In schools apart,
As music summoned rose aud salk;
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Again not brought?
Not even caught!
Five hundred eyes
Look one surprise.
Reluctant, red, the Chief uprose
The srcll to b7'ak
At once and spakc:
with man and might
We've sought that spriic,
Whose path no scout Of Reason knows.
II backward we drove through TO the childhood Of
Tine,
or descended /! Ahaits th' flu'oLiin cline;
II We halted the planets that be"l round the SUM-
OF would challenge hoaF oetAn' the answer was one
not up here! sang the star in the rythm Of their
sweep;
And Destruction and Death had heard ouiy HIS fame:
Thus It was to the cpd-cGch cIcurficn the same
What should we do?
The case looked blue
Ih'Fc' WI! Hoi 90
10 Narusboto'
Ilah lush al once to Dover Ntsi'
lAose christmas U''s
NiA vastly please
Old santa Claus;
Hes sure 10 pause
Near children with such p'ftnta blcft'
Bu' 'Ae C"uheH mere eAlptu WIN tuinu'nou' uProaF'
Shouted some Take him o"i Others stamped to
t"c"f'
Kisses heard and from fos'i' to FoRy the tSunt;
Two hoIlo"s oi hi'l towns IN southern Vermont!
f''' ye II ma h'm' no donot in s'lne chimney out
there!
Ahu foHy 10 foas'' SH'''eu' au4hee' deelAte'
'"ha's strange L pHSht 'ouheHlor challenged the
| ehnIh,
THAT we visit state that is peerless Tor girls7
That We look for good Kris and his reindeer- aud
toys,
NLere the! We nmu'r Tor m'h III such hhe' sturdy
| boys:
| lis time We quit securing impossible tTacr;