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<blockquote data-quote="satellitedriver" data-source="post: 914341" data-attributes="member: 1664"><p><span style="color: #006400"><strong>This is the quintessential Christmas poem.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006400"><strong></strong></span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #336699">Twas the Night before Christmas Poem</span></span></span></strong><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080"></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">The children were nestled all snug in their beds,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap.</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080"></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">Away to the window I flew like a flash,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080"></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below.</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">But a miniature sleigh, and eight tinny reindeer.</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080"></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">With a little old driver, so lively and quick,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">I knew in a moment it must be St Nick.</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name!</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080"></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">"Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">On, Comet! On, Cupid! on, on Donner and Blitzen!</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!"</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080"></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky.</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">With the sleigh full of Toys, and St Nicholas too.</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080"></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">As I drew in my head, and was turning around,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">Down the chimney St Nicholas came with a bound.</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080"></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080"></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080"></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">He had a broad face and a little round belly,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080"></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself!</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080"></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk.</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">And laying his finger aside of his nose,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose!</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080"></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">But I heard him exclaim, ‘ere he drove out of sight,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"</span></span></span></strong> </p><p><strong><span style="color: #006400"><strong>Every Christmas</strong></span></strong><span style="color: #006400"><strong> Eve, when I have finished my route, I utter these words, to myself.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006400"><strong>"Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night"</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006400"><strong>At that point in time is when I truly feel the Christmas spirit.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006400"><strong></strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="satellitedriver, post: 914341, member: 1664"] [COLOR=#006400][B]This is the quintessential Christmas poem. [/B][/COLOR][B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=5][COLOR=#336699]Twas the Night before Christmas Poem[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][CENTER][B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#808080]Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads. And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s 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 a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash. The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below. When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh, and eight tinny 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 by name! "Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! On, Cupid! on, on Donner 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 fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, With the sleigh full of Toys, and St Nicholas too. And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof The prancing and pawing of each little hoof. As I drew in my head, and was turning around, Down the chimney St Nicholas came with a bound. He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot. A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack. His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry! His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow. The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath. He had a broad face and a little round belly, That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly! He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself! A wink of his eye and a twist of his head, Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread. He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk. And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose! He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim, ‘ere he drove out of sight, "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [/CENTER][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=5][COLOR=#336699][B] [/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][B][COLOR=#006400][B]Every Christmas[/B][/COLOR][/B][COLOR=#006400][B] Eve, when I have finished my route, I utter these words, to myself. "Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night" At that point in time is when I truly feel the Christmas spirit. [/B][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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