{"collection":"Sacred Time","page":1,"pages":[{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_index_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_index_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"| | Christmas in Ritual and Tradition by Clement A. Miles [1912] | \nThis is a study of the origin of modern Christmas in ancient pagan traditions, how the festival was adopted by Christianity, and its evolution through history. Miles includes descriptions of folk-lore related to the Christmas season from a wide range of European countries, including an extensive collection of folk songs.","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition Index","word_count":92},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt02_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt02_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The Origin and Purpose of Festivals\u2014Ideas suggested by Christmas\u2014Pagan and Christian Elements\u2014The Names of the Festival\u2014Foundation of the Feast of the Nativity\u2014Its Relation to the Epiphany\u2014December 25 and the Natalis Invicti\u2014The Kalends of January\u2014Yule and Teutonic Festivals\u2014The Church and Pagan Survivals\u2014Two Conflicting Types of Festival\u2014Their Interaction\u2014Plan of the Book. Ancient Latin Hymns, their Dogmatic, Theological Character\u2014Humanizing Influence of Franciscanism\u2014Jacopone da Todi's\u2026","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Contents","word_count":762},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt03_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt03_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Gentile da Fabriano. (Florence: Accademia)\nAlbert D\u00fcrer\nPesellino. (Empoli Gallery)\nFrom \u201cLaude di Frate Jacopone da Todi\u201d (Florence, 1490)\nBy Fouquet.","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Illustrations","word_count":147},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt06_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt06_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The French No\u00ebl\u2014Latin Hymnody in Eighteenth-century France\u2014Spanish Christmas Verse\u2014Traditional Carols of Many Countries\u2014Christmas Poetry in Protestant Germany\u2014Post-Reformation Verse in England\u2014Modern English Carols. The Reformation marks a change in the character of Christmas poetry in England and the larger part of Germany, and, instead of following its development under Protestantism, it will be well to break off and turn awhile to countries where Catholic tradition remained unbroken. We\u2026","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Part I. The Christian ...","word_count":3957},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt05_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt05_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Ancient Latin Hymns, their Dogmatic, Theological Character\u2014Humanizing Influence of Franciscanism\u2014Jacopone da Todi's Vernacular Verse\u2014German Catholic Poetry\u2014Mediaeval English Carols. Christmas, as we have seen, had its beginning at the middle of the fourth century in Rome. The new feast was not long in finding a hymn-writer to embody in immortal Latin the emotions called forth by the memory of the Nativity.","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Part I. The Christian ...","word_count":4030},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt09_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt09_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Before we pass on to the pagan aspects of Christmas, let us gather up our thoughts in an attempt to realize the peculiar appeal of the Feast of the Nativity, as it has been felt in the past, as it is felt to-day even by moderns who have no belief in the historical truth of the story it commemorates. This appeal of Christmas seems to lie in the union of two modes of feeling which may be called the carol spirit and the mystical spirit. The carol spirit\u2014by this we may understand the simple, human\u2026","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Part I. The Christian ...","word_count":1116},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt08_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt08_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Origins of the Mediaeval Drama\u2014Dramatic Tendencies in the Liturgy\u2014Latin Liturgical Plays\u2014The Drama becomes Laicized\u2014Characteristics of the Popular Drama\u2014The Nativity in the English Miracle Cycles\u2014Christmas Mysteries in France\u2014Later French Survivals of Christmas Drama\u2014German Christmas Plays\u2014Mediaeval Italian Plays and Pageants\u2014Spanish Nativity Plays\u2014Modern Survivals in Various Countries\u2014The Star-singers, &c. From Broadside No. 305 in the Collection of the Society of Antiquaries at Burlington\u2026","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Part I. The Christian ...","word_count":8931},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt07_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt07_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Advent and Christmas Offices of the Roman Church\u2014The Three Masses of Christmas, their Origin and their Celebration in Rome\u2014The Midnight Mass in Many Lands\u2014Protestant Survivals of the Night Services\u2014Christmas in the Greek Church\u2014The Eastern Epiphany and the Blessing of the Waters\u2014The Presepio or Crib, its Supposed Institution by St. Francis\u2014Early Traces of the Crib\u2014The Crib in Germany, Tyrol, &c.\u2014Cradle-rocking in Mediaeval Germany\u2014Christmas Minstrels in Italy and Sicily\u2014The Presepio in\u2026","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Part I. The Christian Feast: Chapter IV. Christmas in Liturgy and Popular Devotion","word_count":10024},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt21_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt21_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The reader who has had patience to persevere will by now have gained some idea of the manner in which Christmas is, and has been, kept throughout Europe. We have traced the evolution of the festival, seen it take its rise soon after the victory of the Catholic doctrine of Christ's person at Nicea, and spread from Rome to every quarter of the Empire, not as a folk-festival but as an ecclesiastical holy-day. We have seen the Church condemn with horror the relics of pagan feasts which clung round\u2026","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Part II. Pagan Surviva...","word_count":1200},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt16_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt16_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Prominence of Eating in the English Christmas\u2014The Boar's Head, the Goose, and other Christmas Fare\u2014Frumenty, Sowens, Yule Cakes, and the Wassail Bowl\u2014Continental Christmas Dishes, their Possible Origins\u2014French and German Cakes\u2014The Animals\u2019 Christmas Feast\u2014Cakes in Eastern Europe\u2014Relics of Animal Sacrifice\u2014Hunting the Wren\u2014Various Games of Sacrificial Origin. In the mind of the average sensual Englishman perhaps the most vivid images called up by the word Christmas are those connected with\u2026","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Part II. Pagan Surviva...","word_count":4118},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt19_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt19_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Principle of New Year Customs\u2014The New Year in France, Germany, the United States, and Eastern Europe\u2014\u201cFirst-footing\u201d in Great Britain\u2014Scottish New Year Practices\u2014Highland Fumigation and \u201cBreast-strip\u201d Customs\u2014Hogmanay and Aguillanneuf\u2014New Year Processions in Macedonia, Roumania, Greece, and Rome\u2014Methods of Augury\u2014Sundry New Year Charms. Coming to January 1, the modern and the Roman New Year's Day, we shall find that most of its customs have been anticipated at earlier festivals; the Roman\u2026","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Part II. Pagan Surviva...","word_count":4594},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt18_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt18_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Horse Customs of St. Stephen's Day\u2014The Swedish St. Stephen\u2014St.","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Part II. Pagan Surviva...","word_count":2107},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt23_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt23_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Time\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \nBuy this Book at Amazon.com\n \n Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, by Clement A. Miles, [1912]\n \n INDEX\n \n \n - Abbots Bromley, horn-dance at, \u00a0201 \n \n \n- Abruzzi, All Souls\u2019 Eve in, \u00a0192;\n \n \n- \u201cAdam,\u201d drama, \u00a0127 \n \n \n- Adam and Eve, their Day, \u00a0271 \n \n \n- Adam of St. Victor, \u00a033 \n \n \n- \u201cAdeste, fideles,\u201d \u00a063 \n \n \n- Advent, \u00a090;\n \n \n - \u201cAdvent images,\u201d \u00a0118; \n \n \n - Kl\u00f6pfeln\u00e4chte, \u00a0216 \n \n- Alexandria, pagan rites at, \u00a020 \n \n \n- All Saints\u2019 Day\u2026","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Part II. Pagan Surviva...","word_count":5021},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt14_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt14_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The Log as Centre of the Domestic Christmas\u2014Customs of the Southern Slavs\u2014The Polaznik\u2014Origin of the Yule Log\u2014Probable Connection with Vegetation-cults or Ancestor-worship\u2014The Souche de No\u00ebl in France\u2014Italian and German Christmas Logs\u2014English Customs\u2014The Yule Candle in England and Scandinavia. The peoples of Europe have various centres for their Christmas rejoicing. In Spain and Italy the crib is often the focus of the festival in the home as well as the church.","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Part II. Pagan Surviva...","word_count":3289},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt10_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt10_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The Church and Superstition\u2014Nature of Pagan Survivals\u2014Racial Origins\u2014Roman Festivals of the Saturnalia and Kalends\u2014Was there a Teutonic Midwinter Festival?\u2014The Teutonic, Celtic, and Slav New Year\u2014Customs attracted to Christmas or January 1\u2014The Winter Cycle of Festivals\u2014Rationale of Festival Ritual: (a) Sacrifice and Sacrament, (b) the Cult of the Dead, (c) Omens and Charms for the New Year\u2014Compromise in the Later Middle Ages\u2014The Puritans and Christmas\u2014Decay of Old Traditions. We have now to\u2026","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Part II. Pagan Surviva...","word_count":9356},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt17_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt17_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"English Court Masking\u2014\u201cThe Lord of Misrule\u201d\u2014The Mummers\u2019 Play, the Sword-Dance, and the Morris Dance\u2014Origin of St. George and other Characters\u2014Mumming in Eastern Europe\u2014The Feast of Fools, its History and Suppression\u2014The Boy Bishop, his Functions and Sermons\u2014Modern Survivals of the Boy Bishop. From an article by Mr.","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Part II. Pagan Surviva...","word_count":4076},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt11_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt11_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"All Saints\u2019 and All Souls\u2019 Days, their Relation to a New Year Festival\u2014All Souls\u2019 Eve and Tendance of the Departed\u2014Soul Cakes in England and on the Continent\u2014Pagan Parallels of All Souls\u2019\u2014Hallowe'en Charms and Omens\u2014Hallowe'en Fires\u2014Guy Fawkes Day\u2014\u201cOld Hob,\u201d the Schimmelreiter, and other Animal Masks\u2014Martinmas and its Slaughter\u2014Martinmas Drinking\u2014St. Martin's Fires in Germany\u2014Winter Visitors in the Low Countries and Germany\u2014St. Martin as Gift-bringer\u2014St.","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Part II. Pagan Surviva...","word_count":7114},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt15_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt15_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The Christmas-tree a German Creation\u2014Charm of the German Christmas\u2014Early Christmas-trees\u2014The Christmas Pyramid\u2014Spread of the Tree in Modern Germany and other Countries\u2014Origin of the Christmas-tree\u2014Beliefs about Flowering Trees at Christmas\u2014Evergreens at the Kalends\u2014Non-German Parallels to the Christmas-tree\u2014Christmas Decorations connected with Ancient Kalends Customs\u2014Sacredness of Holly and Mistletoe\u2014Floors strewn with Straw\u2014Christmas and New Year Gifts, their Connection with the Roman Strenae\u2026","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Part II. Pagan Surviva...","word_count":5992},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt13_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt13_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Christkind, Santa Klaus, and Knecht Ruprecht\u2014Talking Animals and other Wonders of Christmas Eve\u2014Scandinavian Beliefs about Trolls and the Return of the Dead\u2014Traditional Christmas Songs in Eastern Europe\u2014The Twelve Days, their Christian Origin and Pagan Superstitions\u2014The Raging Host\u2014Hints of Supernatural Visitors in England\u2014The German Frauen\u2014The Greek Kallikantzaroi. Christmas in the narrowest sense must be reckoned as beginning on the evening of December 24. Though Christmas Eve is not much\u2026","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Part II. Pagan Survivals: Chapter IX. Christmas Eve and the Twelve Days","word_count":6393},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt12_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt12_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"St. Clement's Day Quests and Processions\u2014St. Catherine's Day as Spinsters\u2019 Festival\u2014St.","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Part II. Pagan Survivals: Chapter VIII. St. Clement to St. Thomas","word_count":5245},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt20_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt20_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The Twelfth Cake and the \u201cKing of the Bean\u201d\u2014French Twelfth Night Customs\u2014St. Basil's Cake in Macedonia\u2014Epiphany and the Expulsion of Evils\u2014The Befana in Italy\u2014The Magi as Present-bringers\u2014Greek Epiphany Customs\u2014Wassailing Fruit-trees\u2014Herefordshire and Irish Twelfth Night Practices\u2014The \u201cHaxey Hood\u201d and Christmas Football\u2014St. Knut's Day in Sweden\u2014Rock Day\u2014Plough Monday\u2014Candlemas, its Ecclesiastical and Folk Ceremonies\u2014Farewells to Christmas.","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Part II. Pagan Survivals: Chapter XVI. Epiphany to Candlemas","word_count":5824},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt24_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt24_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1 For an explanation of the small numerals in the text see Preface. [Transcriber's Note: In this edition the numerals are enclosed in , so they will not be confused with footnotes.]\n2 \u201cChristianity,\u201d as here used, will stand for the system of orthodoxy which had been fixed in its main outlines when the festival of Christmas took its rise. The relation of the orthodox creed to historical fact need not concern us here, nor need we for the purposes of this study attempt to distinguish between the\u2026","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Part II. Pagan Survivals: Footnotes","word_count":4054},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt22_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt22_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Bibliographical details are given with the first reference to each authority, and the titles and authors\u2019 names are there printed in heavy type. The particulars are repeated in the notes to Part II. when authorities are referred to again.","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Part II. Pagan Survivals: Notes and Bibliography","word_count":7661},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt01_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_crt_crt01_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"In this volume I have tried to show how Christmas is or has been kept in various lands and ages, and to trace as far as possible the origin of the pagan elements that have mingled with the Church's feast of the Nativity. In Part I. I have dealt with the festival on its distinctively Christian side.","title":"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Preface","word_count":405},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_cal_pom_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_cal_pom_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"| Planetary Positions Islamic Date Jewish Date | \n| CURRENT PHASE OF THE MOON The 'age' is the distance in degrees (from 0 to 360) that the moon has traversed in its orbit since it was new. The phase is percentage of the moons' face which is currently lit, (i.e., it is 100% at full and 0% at new). If the phase is currently increasing the moon is said to be waxing and if it is decreasing it is said to be waning.","title":"Current Phase of the Moon","word_count":175},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x24_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x24_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE Christ-child lay on Mary's lap,\n His hair was like a light. (O weary, weary were the world,\n But here is all aright.)\nThe Christ-child lay on Mary's breast,\n His hair was like a star. (O stern and cunning are the Kings,\n But here the true hearts are.)\nThe Christ-child lay on Mary's heart,\n His hair was like a fire.","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: A Christmas Carol","word_count":110},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x42_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x42_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THAT sweeter music can we bring\n Than a carol, for to sing\n The birth of this our heavenly King? Awake the voice; awake the string! Heart, ear, and eye, and everything!","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: A Christmas Carol","word_count":150},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x18_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x18_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE Kings to the Stable\n They brought sweet spice,\n The gold and the silver,\n And jewels of price. But the Dove by the manger\n She would not cease\n Mourning so softly:\n Bring Him Peace; bring Him Peace! The Kings from the Orient\n Brought nard and clove.","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: A Song For The Season","word_count":138},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x26_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x26_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE Christmas moon shines clear and right;\n There were poor travellers such a night\n Had neither fire nor candle-light. One plucked them stars out of the sky\n To show the road to travel by;\n So that the Ass go warily. She had all Heaven safe in her hold,\n Hidden within her mantle's fold--\n All Heaven, and It was one hour old.","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: A Song of Christmas","word_count":144},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x41_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x41_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"IN numbers, and but these few,\n I sing Thy birth, O Jesu! Thou pretty baby, born here,\n With sup'rabundant scorn here;\n Who for Thy princely port here,\n Hadst for Thy place\n Of birth a base\n Out-stable for Thy court here. Instead of neat enclosures\n Of interwoven osiers,\n Instead of fragrant posies\n Of daffodils and roses,\n Thy cradle, Kingly Stranger,\n As Gospel tells,\n Was nothing else\n But here a homely manger.","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: An Ode to the Birth of Our Saviour","word_count":122},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x29_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x29_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"DIM-BERRIED is the mistletoe\n With globes of sheenless grey,\n The holly mid ten thousand thorns\n Smolders its fires away;\n And in the manger Jesu sleeps\n This Christmas Day. Bull unto bull with hollow throat\n Makes echo every hill,\n Cold sheep in pastures thick with snow\n The air with bleatings fill;\n While of His Mother's heart this Babe\n Takes His sweet will. All flowers and butterflies lie hid,\n The blackbird and the thrush\n Pipe but a little as they flit\n Restless from bush to bush;\n Even\u2026","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: Before Dawn","word_count":174},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x23_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x23_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"BEHOLD a silly tender Babe,\n In freezing winter night,\n In homely manger trembling lies\n Alas! a piteous sight. The inns are full, no man will yield\n This little Pilgrim bed;\n But forced He is with silly beasts\n In crib to shroud His head.","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: Behold A Silly Tender Babe","word_count":147},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x09_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x09_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"WHEN the herds were watching\n In the midnight chill,\n Came a spotless lambkin\n From the heavenly hill. Snow was on the mountains,\n And the wind was cold,\n When from God's own garden\n Dropped a rose of gold. When 'twas bitter winter,\n Houseless and forlorn\n In a star-lit stable\n Christ the Babe was born.","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: Carol","word_count":77},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x04_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x04_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"STAR high\n Baby low:\n 'Twixt the two\n Wise men go;\n Find the baby,\n Grasp the star\n Heirs of all things\n Near and far! --GEORGE MACDONALD","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: Christmas Day And Every Day","word_count":35},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x14_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x14_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"IN Christmas Eve the little stars\n Sparkle and glisten with delight,\n Like strings of glitt'ring diamonds,\n Across the darkness of the night. On Christmas Eve the little stars\n Dance in their places in the sky;\n Ah! I would go and trip with them\n If I could only climb as high.","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: Christmas Eve","word_count":112},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x25_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x25_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"LITTLE Jesus, wast Thou shy\n Once, and just so small as I? And what did it feel like to be\n Out of Heaven, and just like me? Didst Thou sometimes think of there.","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: Ex Ore Infantium","word_count":353},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x49_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x49_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky,\n The flying cloud, the frosty light:\n The year is dying in the night;\n Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new,\n Ring, happy bells, across the snow:\n The year is going, let him go;\n Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out the grief that saps the mind,\n For those that here we see no more;\n Ring out the feud of rich and poor,\n Ring in redress to all mankind.","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: From \u201cIn Memoriam\u201d","word_count":185},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x44_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x44_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"I SAW three ships come sailing in,\n On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day;\n I saw three ships come sailing in\n On Christmas Day in the morning. And who was in those ships all three,\n On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day? And who was in those ships all three,\n On Christmas Day in the morning?","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: I Saw Three Ships","word_count":222},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x01_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x01_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: Index of Authors And Bibliography","word_count":269},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x10_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x10_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"AS I rode out this enderes' night,\n Of three jolly shepherds I saw a sight\n And all about their fold a star shone bright;\n They sang, Terli, terlow;\n So merrily the shepherds their pipes can blow. Down from heaven, from heaven so high,\n Of angels there came a great company. With mirth, and joy, and great solemnity\n They sang, Terli, terlow;\n So merrily the shepherds their pipes can blow.","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: Shepherd's Song","word_count":81},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x07_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x07_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"WHY do the bells of Christmas ring? Why do little children sing? Once a lovely shining star,\n Seen by shepherds from afar,\n Gently moved until its light\n Made a manger's cradle bright.","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: Song","word_count":75},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x33_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x33_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"WE are the poor children, come out to see the\u00a0 sights\n On this day of all days, on this night of nights,\n The stars in merry parties are dancing in the sky,\n A fine star, a new star, is shining on high! We are the poor children, our lips are frosty blue,\n We cannot sing our carol as well as rich folk do,\n Our bellies are so empty we have no singing voice,\n But this night of all nights good children must rejoice. We do rejoice, we do rejoice, as hard as we can try,\n A fine star, a new star is\u2026","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: The Carol of the Poor...","word_count":223},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x05_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x05_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"LITTLE one, who straight hast come\n Down the heavenly stair,\n Tell us all about your home,\n And the father there.\"\n\"He is such a one as I\n Like as like can be. Do his will, and, by and by,\n Home and him you'll see.\"\n--GEORGE MACDONALD","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: The Christmas Child","word_count":56},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x08_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x08_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"HOW happy the holly-tree looks, and how strong,\n Where he stands like a sentinel all the year long. Neither dry summer heat nor cold winter hail\n Can make that gay warrior tremble or quail. He has beamed all the year, but bright scarlet he'll glow\n When the ground glitters white with the fresh fallen snow.","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: The Holly","word_count":67},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x27_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x27_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE holly and the ivy,\n Now are both well grown. Of all the trees that are in the wood\n The holly bears the crown. The holly bears a blossom\n As white as the lily flower,\n And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ\n To be our sweet Saviour.","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: The Holly And The Ivy","word_count":145},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x06_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x06_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"LITTLE lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee,\n Gave thee life, and bade thee feed\n By the stream and o'er the mead;\n Gave thee clothing of delight,\n Softest clothing, woolly, bright;\n Gave thee such a tender voice,\n Making all the vales rejoice? Little lamb, who made thee?","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: The Lamb","word_count":125},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x43_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x43_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"CHRISTMAS Eve, and twelve of the clock. \"Now they are all on their knees,\"\n An elder said as we sat in a flock\n By the embers in hearthside ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where\n They dwelt in their strawy pen,\n Nor did it occur to one of us there\n To doubt they were kneeling then.","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: The Oxen","word_count":119},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x30_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x30_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THERE were sparkles on the window-pane and sparkles in the sky,\n The moon it sparkled like a star above the world so high,\n There was star-shine on the ceiling, there was star-shine on the bed,\n There was star-shine in my eyes, I think, and star-shine in my head. I clambered from my sleep, I did; I flung the window wide,\n I wanted all that waited in the Christmas Eve outside,\n I wanted for myself to hear the Christmas people sing,\n I wanted for myself to hear the Christmas joy-bells ring. And\u2026","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: The Waits","word_count":389},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x00_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x00_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Scanned and proofed by Eliza Yetter, March 2007. HTML Formatting by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was not renewed at the US Copyright Office in a timely fashion as required by law at the time.","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: Title Page","word_count":56},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x40_htm","collection":"Sacred Time","id":"sacred_texts_v1_time_50x_50x40_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"GO pretty child, and bear this flower\n Unto thy little Saviour;\n And tell Him, by that bud now blown,\n He is the Rose of Sharon known:\n When thou hast said so, stick it there\n Upon his bib, or stomacher:\n And tell Him, (for good handsell too)\n That thou hast bought a whistle new,\n Made of a clean straight oaten reed,\n To charm His cries, (at time of need:)\n Tell Him, for coral, thou hast none;\n But if thou hadst, He should have one;\n But poor thou art, and known to be\n Even as moneyless as He\u2026","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: To His Saviour, A Child; A Present By A Child","word_count":132}],"sort":"title","tag":null,"total":80}