A Christmas carol . H Cbrtstmas Carol For the first time the hand appeared toshake. Good Spirit, he pursued, as down uponthe ground he fell before it : Your natureintercedes for me, and pities me. Assure methat I yet may change these shadows youhave shown me, by an altered life ! The kind hand trembled. I will honour Christmas in my heart, andtry to keep it all the year. 1 will live inthe Past, the Present, and the Future. TheSpirits of all Three shall strive within not shut out the lessons that they , tell me 1 may sponge away the writingon this stone ! In his agony he caught
A Christmas carol . H Cbrtstmas Carol For the first time the hand appeared toshake. Good Spirit, he pursued, as down uponthe ground he fell before it : Your natureintercedes for me, and pities me. Assure methat I yet may change these shadows youhave shown me, by an altered life ! The kind hand trembled. I will honour Christmas in my heart, andtry to keep it all the year. 1 will live inthe Past, the Present, and the Future. TheSpirits of all Three shall strive within not shut out the lessons that they , tell me 1 may sponge away the writingon this stone ! In his agony he caught the spectral sought to free itself, but he was strong inhis entreaty, and detained it. The Spirit,stronger yet, repulsed him. Holding up his hands in one last prayer tohave his fate reversed, he saw an alteration inthe Phantoms hood and dress. It shrank,collapsed, and dwindled down into a 143
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