Show t 1 W t The Spangled free freeBy By FOLGER McKINSEY in Baltimore Ballimore Sun SUfi rii ii tit ft ii ii THERE never was a forest that bore borea a spangled tree But Dut time that every Christmas comes T r every everywhere to see soe And A A i has set sd them sloWing glowing or in what land they're growing L 1 know not and ond I never knew but I Iam Iam am very glad its it's true Oh first rt they have green branches Just just H like the pines dwell n nj j Beside the noble forest of chestnuts by the dell deU And over nIl all that beauty a gradual beauty seems To dwell among their swaying boughs in immemorial gleams And now that I remember an old tale told to me me- me It is the land of fairies where grows the spangled tree And softly in December the loving fairies crawl crowl Along the hard and snowy miles miles- All laughter and all songs and smiles smiles- To set them in our hall holl There never nover was a forest except a fairy one That grew a n tree of greenwood all decked with moon and Md sun And little stars and ond candles and oranges and cake I And trumpets of the Christmastide for little childhoods childhood's sake And so Im I'm glad Im I'm living Jiving where people people peo peo- ore are so fine fino That in the winter season the tree that seems a n pine Comes from the fairy gardens all spangled spangled span span- as os does this That gleams for little children with the lips we love to kiss |