...touched upon Christmas Eve with a reverential tenderness, sweet as if he had spoken it hushingly? ' Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes, Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawmng singeth all night long: . And then, they say, no sprite dares stir abroad; The nights...

...portents did appear ; As stars with trains of fire, &c. I. 1. MARCELLUS. Some say, that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long. It is not observed in the notes, as possibly being too well known to need the remark, that it is a...

...HEARTH AOT) HOMESTEAD. CHAPTER I " It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome : then no planets strike,...

...the olden time) the very season is considered sacredly wholesome against all unnatural harms : — " Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes. Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The...

...watcher may hear the ringing of subterranean bells. In the mining districts, again, the workmen declare that " ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated," high mass is solemnly performed, in that cavern which contains the richest lode of ore, — that it...

...HOMESTEAD," «C WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY DUNCAN, ENGRAVED BY LINTON. H. HT'RST, KING WILLIAM ST.. STB AND. "Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad , The nights are wholesome : then no planets strike,...

...and of the truth herein This present object made probation. Mar. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights...

...earnest devotion. The very superstitions of the people were hallowed by their confiding belief : — Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad ; The nights...

...population. Perhaps the finest of them is that alluded to by Shakespeare in the following lines: " Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our SAVIOUR'S birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long ; And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The...

...the mystical atmosphere. Exterior / SENTRY POST Dawn MARCELLUS It faded on the crowing of the cock Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated The bird of dawning singeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad, The nights...