. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . BY CLEMENT C. MOORE. Born iu New York, July 15, 1779; died ia RhodeIsland, July 10, 1863. WAS the night before Christmas, when allthrough the houseNot a creature was stirring, not even amouse;The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be children were nestled all snug in their bedsWhile visions of sugar-plums danced through their heads;And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my settled our brains for a long winters nap,When out on the lawn there
. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . BY CLEMENT C. MOORE. Born iu New York, July 15, 1779; died ia RhodeIsland, July 10, 1863. WAS the night before Christmas, when allthrough the houseNot a creature was stirring, not even amouse;The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be children were nestled all snug in their bedsWhile visions of sugar-plums danced through their heads;And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my settled our brains for a long winters nap,When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,. I sprang from the bed to see what |was the matter. Away to the window I flew like aflash. Tore open the shutters and threwup the sash. The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow Gave the lustre of mid-day to ob-jects below; When what to my wondering eyesshould appear But a miniature sleigh and eighttiny reindeer. With a little old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick. More rapid than eagles his coursers they came. And he whistled, and shouted, and called them byname: Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer! andVixen! On, Comet! on, Cupid ! on, Donder and Blitzen! To the top of the porch ! to the top of the wall! Now dash away ! dash away! dash away all! As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky,So up to the house-top the coursers they a sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roofThe prancing and pawing of each little I drew in my head,
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