Salt Lake Telegram | 1913-12-24 | Page 9 | Christmas Poem by Bridges Published at Rulers' Request

Christmas Poem by y Bridges Pub at Rulers Rulers' Request I LONDON Doc A poem entitled Christmas Eve by Robert Bridges Great Creat poet laureate appears In th tho Times by t tics tics' express desire The first two verses rea 1 A frosty Christmas eve when the tho stiltS stars were shining r Fared I 1 forth me h 1 where re w westward fails the lull hili And from man many a village Sn In the valley alley Distant nt music reaches me peals ot of bells belie The sounds ran sprin- sprin kiln hung on e earths earth's floor As the tho dark vault above with tars stars was spangled ocr oer Then sped d m my thoughts to keep keet that first or of all aU When the shepherds watching b bi theIr folds erG era the dawn Heard music In the tho fields and mar mar- velin could not tell Whether bether it were angels or the bright stars singing The poem is I. cast In tn the tho form lorm adopted b by the tint first recorded pi-ede- pi cessor of the laureat In 1340 namely G Germanic d upon alliteration oration arid and a central pause the most or of which Is In InThe The Vision of Piers ll