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Show Tke Spangled Tree By FOLGEK NcKINSEY in Baitw-.ore Sun HpHEPiE never was a forest ihat bora a spangled tree, But every time that Christmas comes they're everywhere to see; And what has set them glowing, or in what land they're growing, I know not and I never knew but I am very glad it's true ! Oh, first they have green branches i'ust like the pines that dwell le noble forest of chestnuts by the dell; And over 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 melt me-lt is the land of fairies where grows the spangled tree, And softly in December the loving fairies crawl Along the hard and snowy miles All laughter and all songs and smiles To set them in our hall. There never was a forest except a fairy one That grew a tree of greenwood all decked With moon and sun, And little stars and candles and oranges and cako, And trumpets of the Christmastide for little childhood's sake. And so Fm glad I'm living where people peo-ple are so fine-That fine-That in the winter season the tree that - seems a pine Comes from the fairy gardens all spangled span-gled as does this That gleams for little children with the lips we love to kiss ! |