<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519603" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Christmas</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The glowing censers, and their rich perfume;<br>The splendid vestments, and the sounding choir;<br>The gentle sigh of soul-subduing piety;<br>The alms which open-hearted charity <br>Bestows, with kindly glance; and those<br>Which e'en stern avarice.<br>Though with unwilling hand,<br>Seems forced to tender; an offering sweet<br>To the bright throne of mercy; mark<br>This day a festival.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And well our Christian sires of old<br>Loved when the year its course had roll'd,<br>And brought blithe Christmas back again,<br>With all its hospitable train.<br>Domestic and religious rite<br>Gave honour to the holy night.<br>On Christmas eve the bells were rung,<br>On Christmas-eve the mass was sung;<br>That only night in all the year<br>Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear.<br>The damsel donn'd her Kirtle sheen;<br>The hall was dress'd with holly green;<br>Then open'd wide the baron's hall,<br>To vassal -- tenant -- serf and all:<br>Power laid his rod of rule aside,<br>And ceremony doff'd his pride.<br>All hail'd with uncontroll'd delight,<br>And general voice, the happy night,<br>That to the cottage, as the crown,<br>Brought tidings of salvation down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sir+Walter+Scott">Sir Walter Scott</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519603" data-title="Christmas de Sir Walter Scott" data-description="The glowing censers, and their rich perfume; The splendid vestments, and the sounding choir; The gentle sigh of soul-subduing piety; The alms which open-hearted charity Bestows, with kindly glance; and those Which e'en stern avarice. Though with ..."></div> </div> </div>

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