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Show CHRISTMAS, THE KING. What if the cynics and dry-as-dtist sages Usher in Christmas with many a sneer, Christmas, whose mirth is the joy . the ages, Lord of festivity, prince of " good cheer I What if the pessimists labor to shiver us, Prating of worries the season muet bring, . "" Front all such people, good Lord, 4 . please deliver its, 1 Hail to the subjects of Xmas, the king! If there's a boy who in certain insanity, , . Vaivs Santa Cluus as a fable is - "riW Mom;. . I f there's a limn who, in vacant ' m' inanity, ' I Owns that a microbe and mince I pie are one ; I If there's a girl who, in solemn I severity, I Shudders to hear of a mistle- I toe bough '. 1 Leave them alone in their shock- 1 big temerity; I Why should we worry o'er silly jl folk now? . I When Turk or Gander, in stately profundity, Enters with sausages crisp from the fire ; -I When Mr. Tudding, in f plciulul ' rotundity, ' ( Flares, ready placed on his fu- . ucral pyre; When the young faces arc glowing glow-ing with pleasure When the bright carols in chorus cho-rus we sing. Then, if you grumble, we've tak- en your measure You are n traitor to Christmas, the King I Even- in solitude, happy the things wc sec nnltding themselves in the log's steady glow; Memories of younger days, warm with festivity. Faces- that only in dreams wo can know ; Dreams of the friends who forever for-ever are ported. Children now lost to us, loves we have slain See how they smile on us ; merciful-hearted, Christmas has seen us unite again. Not while he brightens a little child's sadness, Uird of old make-believe, goo 1 Santa Claus; Not while he brings to the sor rowful gladness, Leader unrivalled in jolhy s cause; Not while hi name bearcUi peace to the weary, Crushing the pain out of poverty's pov-erty's sting. Will wc dethrone him, tle honest and cheery , , Warden of Chanties. Christmas, Christ-mas, the King. Then let his subjects in jovial I chorus . , , , , I Give Wm n greeting with might I . aa4 with main, , just ob our fathers have olisorcd f him before us, So will their children now cheer him again. Cynics and pessimists! We will have none of them ! Loyal and true are the wishes we bring. Scoffers and misanthropes! Dowi with each one of them! Here's Merry Christmas t , Christmas,- the King' |