Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1901 — Christmas and New Year. [ARTICLE]

Christmas and New Year.

King Christmas sat In his house of Ice And looked across the snow. “Hallo, my little man!” he cried, “Now, whither dost thou go?” “I go, my Lord, along this way That all my kin have gone, Where thou, my Lord, shalt follow me Before another dawn.” “Right gayly,” cried the Christmas king. “Who ride to-night with thee?” “The days of grief, the days of joy, Are they who ride with me.” “God keep thee, merry little man; Go whisper them that mourn How surely comes again the day When Christ the Lord was born. “And be not sad, my little man. But when thou, too, art old And o'er the wintry wastes you comet A weary man and cold. “Right cheerily, I pray thee, then. To keep this graclons tryst. And leave the weary burden here Where cares grow light, with Christ, “Now, bid thy gallant company Ride onward without fear, For I, the king of Christmas, Have blessed the glad New Tear.” —The Century.