a christmas carol.

a christmas carol.

14x44 oil on canvas 

In December ring

    Every day the chimes;

    Loud the gleemen sing

In the streets their merry rhymes.

        Let us by the fire 

        Ever higher

Sing them till the night expire.

    Shepherds at the grange,

    Where the Babe was born,

    Sang, with many a change,

Christmas carols until morn.

        Let us by the fire

        Ever higher

Sing them till the night expire!

    These good people sang

    Songs devout and sweet;

    While the rafters rang,

There they stood with freezing feet.

        Let us by the fire 

        Ever higher

Sing them till the night expire.

.....A CHRISTMAS CAROL. by Henry W. Longfellow