Christmas Wishes

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h2><SPAN name="CHRISTMAS_WISHES" id="CHRISTMAS_WISHES"></SPAN>CHRISTMAS WISHES.</h2> <h3>A CAROL.</h3> <h3>BY</h3> <h2>JULIANA HORATIA EWING.</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i1">Oh, happy Christmas, full of blessings, come!<br/></span> <span class="i3">Now bid our discords cease;<br/></span> <span class="i3">Here give the weary ease;<br/></span> <span class="i3">Let the long-parted meet again in peace;<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_200" id="Page_200"></SPAN>[200]</span> <span class="i3">Bring back the far-away;<br/></span> <span class="i3">Grant us a holiday;<br/></span> <span class="i3">And by the hopes of Christmas-tide we pray&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i1">Let love restore the fallen to his Home;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Whilst up and down the snowy streets the Christmas minstrels sing;<br/></span> <span class="i0">And through the frost from countless towers the bells of Christmas ring.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i1">Ah, Christ! and yet a happier day shall come!<br/></span> <span class="i3">Then bid our discords cease;<br/></span> <span class="i3">There give the weary ease;<br/></span> <span class="i3">Let the long-parted meet again in peace;<br/></span> <span class="i3">Bring back the far-away;<br/></span> <span class="i3">Grant us a holiday;<br/></span> <span class="i3">And by the hopes of Christmas-tide we pray&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i1">Let love restore the fallen to his Home;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Whilst up and down the golden streets the blessed angels sing,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And evermore the heavenly chimes in heavenly cadence ring.<br/></span> </div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />