Chapter I

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons) Song 16 Star of the East 49 FARJEON, ELEANOR Six Green Singers 52 GALES, R. L. Three Christmas Songs 26 I. The Guests II.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons) Song 16 Star of the East 49 FARJEON, ELEANOR Six Green Singers 52 GALES, R. L. Three Christmas Songs 26 I. The Guests II.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons) Song 16 Star of the East 49 FARJEON, ELEANOR Six Green Singers 52 GALES, R. L. Three Christmas Songs 26 I. The Guests II.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons) Song 16 Star of the East 49 FARJEON, ELEANOR Six Green Singers 52 GALES, R. L. Three Christmas Songs 26 I. The Guests II.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

the month following March and preceding May

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading Italic text displayed as: _italic_ _Why do the bells of Christmas ring?

plural of “author” — writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

earlier than; in front of

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

see with attention

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

English author (born in France) remembered especially for his verse for children (1870-1953)

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

plural of “bell” — a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck

From this reading Italic text displayed as: _italic_ _Why do the bells of Christmas ring?

a town in eastern Pennsylvania on the Lehigh River to the northwest of Philadelphia; an important center for steel production

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.)

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

plural of “bird” — warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

the time when something begins (especially life)

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827)

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

brought into existence

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)

From this reading Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons) Song 16 Star of the East 49 FARJEON, ELEANOR Six Green Singers 52 GALES, R. L. Three Christmas Songs 26 I. The Guests II.

the largest city in North Carolina; located in south central North Carolina

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

conservative English writer of the Roman Catholic persuasion; in addition to volumes of criticism and polemics he wrote detective novels featuring Father Brown (1874-1936)

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

a young person of either sex

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

plural of “child” — a young person of either sex

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

possessive form of “christ” — a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6

From this reading Italic text displayed as: _italic_ _Why do the bells of Christmas ring?

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From this reading Cockadoodledoo III.

a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

come or bring to a finish or an end

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

provide with a covering or cause to be covered

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

a baby bed with sides and rockers

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

the first light of day

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

past form of “display” — to show, make visible or apparent

From this reading Italic text displayed as: _italic_ _Why do the bells of Christmas ring?

used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis

From this reading Italic text displayed as: _italic_ _Why do the bells of Christmas ring?

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

a fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for normal reproduction; an important antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals in the body

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees

From this reading Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons) Song 16 Star of the East 49 FARJEON, ELEANOR Six Green Singers 52 GALES, R. L. Three Christmas Songs 26 I. The Guests II.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons) Song 16 Star of the East 49 FARJEON, ELEANOR Six Green Singers 52 GALES, R. L. Three Christmas Songs 26 I. The Guests II.

Austrian general in the service of the Holy Roman Empire during the War of the Spanish Succession (1663-1736)

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

(Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; God created Eve from Adam's rib and placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

all the members of a group, with none left out

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

a man who was formerly a certain woman's husband

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons) Song 16 Star of the East 49 FARJEON, ELEANOR Six Green Singers 52 GALES, R. L. Three Christmas Songs 26 I. The Guests II.

a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

plural of “fire” — the event of something burning (often destructive)

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

plural of “gale” — a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale

From this reading Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons) Song 16 Star of the East 49 FARJEON, ELEANOR Six Green Singers 52 GALES, R. L. Three Christmas Songs 26 I. The Guests II.

Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

acknowledged as a supposition

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

shoot down, of birds

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass

From this reading Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons) Song 16 Star of the East 49 FARJEON, ELEANOR Six Green Singers 52 GALES, R. L. Three Christmas Songs 26 I. The Guests II.

plural of “guest” — a visitor to whom hospitality is extended

From this reading Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons) Song 16 Star of the East 49 FARJEON, ELEANOR Six Green Singers 52 GALES, R. L. Three Christmas Songs 26 I. The Guests II.

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

English lyric poet (1591-1674)

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

any tree or shrub of the genus Ilex having red berries and shiny evergreen leaves with prickly edges

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

a sacred place of pilgrimage

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

From this reading Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons) Song 16 Star of the East 49 FARJEON, ELEANOR Six Green Singers 52 GALES, R. L. Three Christmas Songs 26 I. The Guests II.

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

From this reading Cockadoodledoo III.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

a numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

(Old Testament) the second patriarch; son of Abraham and Sarah who was offered by Abraham as a sacrifice to God; father of Jacob and Esau

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right

From this reading Italic text displayed as: _italic_ _Why do the bells of Christmas ring?

Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

a room or building equipped with one or more toilets

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

the basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

plural of “king” — a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)

From this reading Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons) Song 16 Star of the East 49 FARJEON, ELEANOR Six Green Singers 52 GALES, R. L. Three Christmas Songs 26 I. The Guests II.

a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

young sheep

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

German theologian who led the Reformation; believed that salvation is granted on the basis of faith rather than deeds (1483-1546)

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

female equine animal

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

French bishop who is a patron saint of France (died in 397)

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

English playwright and pamphleteer (1570-1627)

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

English poet; remembered primarily as the author of an epic poem describing humanity's fall from grace (1608-1674)

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

the time period between dawn and noon

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

a form of address for a man

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

the event of being born

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

a lyric poem with complex stanza forms

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading Italic text displayed as: _italic_ _Why do the bells of Christmas ring?

(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

belonging to the speaker and others

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

approval to do something

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

plural of “poem” — a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

deserving or inciting pity

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving)

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

give an exhibition of to an interested audience

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

prepared and printed for distribution and sale

From this reading Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons) Song 16 Star of the East 49 FARJEON, ELEANOR Six Green Singers 52 GALES, R. L. Three Christmas Songs 26 I. The Guests II.

a unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air

From this reading Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons) Song 16 Star of the East 49 FARJEON, ELEANOR Six Green Singers 52 GALES, R. L. Three Christmas Songs 26 I. The Guests II.

past form of “reproduce” — make a copy or equivalent of

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

sound loudly and sonorously

From this reading Italic text displayed as: _italic_ _Why do the bells of Christmas ring?

United States parliamentary authority and author (in 1876) of Robert's Rules of Order (1837-1923)

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

English poet and painter who was a leader of the Pre-Raphaelites (1828-1882)

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

cut with a saw

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons) Song 16 Star of the East 49 FARJEON, ELEANOR Six Green Singers 52 GALES, R. L. Three Christmas Songs 26 I. The Guests II.

possessive form of “shepherd” — a clergyman who watches over a group of people

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

plural of “ship” — a vessel that carries passengers or freight

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

ludicrous, foolish

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

deliver by singing

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

plural of “singer” — a person who sings

From this reading Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons) Song 16 Star of the East 49 FARJEON, ELEANOR Six Green Singers 52 GALES, R. L. Three Christmas Songs 26 I. The Guests II.

the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one

From this reading Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons) Song 16 Star of the East 49 FARJEON, ELEANOR Six Green Singers 52 GALES, R. L. Three Christmas Songs 26 I. The Guests II.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

a male human offspring

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

a short musical composition with words

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

plural of “song” — a short musical composition with words

From this reading Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons) Song 16 Star of the East 49 FARJEON, ELEANOR Six Green Singers 52 GALES, R. L. Three Christmas Songs 26 I. The Guests II.

plural of “son” — a male human offspring

From this reading Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons) Song 16 Star of the East 49 FARJEON, ELEANOR Six Green Singers 52 GALES, R. L. Three Christmas Songs 26 I. The Guests II.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

(astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior

From this reading Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons) Song 16 Star of the East 49 FARJEON, ELEANOR Six Green Singers 52 GALES, R. L. Three Christmas Songs 26 I. The Guests II.

not in physical motion

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

Englishman and Victorian poet (1809-1892)

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

the words of something written

From this reading Italic text displayed as: _italic_ _Why do the bells of Christmas ring?

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading Italic text displayed as: _italic_ _Why do the bells of Christmas ring?

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

United States clockmaker who introduced mass production (1785-1859)

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

United States classical archaeologist (born in Canada) noted for leading the excavation of the Athenian agora (1906-2000)

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

an old word for “to”

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

plural of “verse” — literature in metrical form

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something)

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

plural of “wait” — time during which some action is awaited

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

German conductor (1876-1962)

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

English poet and theologian (1674-1748)

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

at the time that

From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

in or at the place that

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”

From this reading Italic text displayed as: _italic_ _Why do the bells of Christmas ring?

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.

(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth

From this reading A Childermas Rhyme Waiting for the Kings 34 In Præsepio 46 HARDY, THOMAS The Oxen 59 HERRICK, ROBERT A Christmas Carol 58 An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour 57 To His Saviour, A Child; A Present from a Child 56 KING, EDITH The Holly 17 LUTHER, MARTIN Cradle Hymn 28 MACDONALD, GEORGE A Christmas Prayer 25 Christmas Day and Every Day 13 The Christmas Child 14 That Holy King 54 MEYNELL, ALICE Unto Us a Son Is Given 64 MIDDLETON, RICHARD The Carol of the Poor Children 48 MILTON, JOHN From the “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” 66 NIGHTINGALE, M. Mary Had a Little Lamb 32 The Waits 44 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA A Christmas Carol 50 SOUTHWELL, ROBERT Behold a Silly Tender Babe 36 TABB, JOHN BANISTER The Lamb-Child 12 TENNYSON, ALFRED From _In Memoriam_ The Bells 68 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Ex Ore Infantium 38 TYNAN, KATHARINE A Song of Christmas 40 Bethlehem 33 WATTS, ISAAC A Cradle Hymn 42 YOUNG, E. HILTON Christmas 55 OLD CAROL He came all so still Where His mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass.

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From this reading Why do little children sing?_ _The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale._ INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE ANONYMOUS Old Carol 11 Shepherd’s Song 19 The Cherry-Tree Carol 20 The Holly and the Ivy 41 I Saw Three Ships 60 When Christ Was Born 47 Yule-Tide Fires 51 BAIN, C. In the Night 30 BELLOC, HILAIRE The Birds 23 Noël 62 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Cradle Song 22 The Lamb 15 CANTON, WILLIAM Carol 18 CHESTERTON, G. K. A Christmas Carol 37 COLE, CHARLOTTE DRUITT Christmas Eve 24 CRASHAW, RICHARD Verses from The Shepherd’s Hymn 65 DE LA MARE, WALTER Before Dawn 43 FIELD, EUGENE From _The Complete Poems of Eugene Field_ (Copyright, 1910, by Julia S. Field.