Show the spangled tree by FOLGER McKIN mckinsey SIT in baltimore sun alime neves never was a forest that bore a spangled tree but ev every tame ihme that christmas comes feyre everywhere to see and what has set them glowing or in what lend land growing browin I 1 know not and I 1 never knew tut but I 1 am very glad its ies true I 1 oh ch first they have bove green branches just like the pines that dwell beside the noble forest of chestnuts by the dell and over ell all that beauty a gradual beauty seems to dwell among their swaying boughs in immemorial gleams and ana now that I 1 remember an old we tale told to roe me it la is tho the land of fairies whom where grows the spen spangled 91 ad tree and softly in december member the loving fairies crawl along the hard and nr d snowy nales miles all laughter and ell all so songs 9 and smiles to set them in our hall ha there never was a forest except a aulry one that grew a tree of greenwood all decked with moon end and sun and little stars etor and candles end and or oranges as aes andrake and J cake 1 and trumpets of tho the christmastide for little childhoods sake and so rm im glad rm im living where people are so fine that in the winter season the tha tree that seems a pine comes from the loiry te gardens ong all span glad as does doe this a that net gleams for little child children renwIth with the lip q we love to iris ss I 1 |