Christmas Eve wishes

Happy

Holidays!

and

Merry Christmas
to All!

May your holidays be full of love, warmth and joy 

and peoples' presence!

We've already posted one of the best poems there is for today. Fortunately there's more than one that fits.

The Oxen

By Thomas Hardy 

Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.

“Now they are all on their knees,”

An elder said as we sat in a flock

By the embers in hearthside ease.

We pictured the meek mild creatures where

They dwelt in their strawy pen,

Nor did it occur to one of us there

To doubt they were kneeling then.

So fair a fancy few would weave

In these years! Yet, I feel,

If someone said on Christmas Eve,

“Come; see the oxen kneel,

“In the lonely barton by yonder coomb

Our childhood used to know,”

I should go with him in the gloom,

Hoping it might be so.
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