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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358411" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas the night before Christmas,when all through the house <br> Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;<br> The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,<br> In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;<br> The children were nestled all snug in their beds,<br> While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;<br> And Mama in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,<br> Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap;<br> When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,<br> I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.<br> Away to the window I flew like a flash,<br> Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.<br> The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow,<br> Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below,<br> When, what to my wondering sight should appear,<br> But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny rein-deer,<br> With a little old driver, so lively and quick,<br> I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.<br> More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,<br> And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;<br> &quot;Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!<br> On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!<br> To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!<br> Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!&quot;<br> As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,<br> When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky;<br> So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,<br> With the sleigh full of Toys, and St. Nicholas too.<br> And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof,<br> The prancing and pawing of each little hoof--<br> As I drew in my head, and was turning around,<br> Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.<br> He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,<br> And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;<br> A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back,<br> And he look'd like a pedlar just opening his pack.<br> His eyes--how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!<br> His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!<br> His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,<br> And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow;<br> The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,<br> And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath;<br> He had a broad face and a little round belly,<br> That shook when he laughed, like a bowlfull of jelly.<br> He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,<br> And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;<br> A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,<br> Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;<br> He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,<br> And fill'd all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,<br> And laying his finger aside of his nose,<br> And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;<br> He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,<br> And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.<br> But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,<br> &quot;Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clement+Clarke+Moore">Clement Clarke Moore</a><div class=q>
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