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Show New Year's Carol. He gn.ed down from tho window's height luio tho yard1 bulow, Wlioro pciwvG clolhts-Hnoa wildly tossM Their shadows to and fro. Ho pressed ins fnce against tho pane; (It was New Year's Kc,) A m isture gathered on his nose Ho wiped it with his slesve, And soliloquized, as the beauty and tranquillity of the scene had bathed his soul in ecstacy and stirring the sleeping pulses of his muse: Bright in tho forehond of tho morn, Tuo star of liuthlehem shone; Hound Judnh's gray and silent hills A misty shroud was thrown When from the cradle in the corner an infant organ gave forth a sharp and piercing note, and the voice of Sarah Jane interrupted him, saying: " Hark, I hear an angel sing; List to a mother's pryer: Quick! John the paregoric bring Thorn's colic in thn air." |