A MERRY CHRISTMAS WISH.
(By Wilbur D. Nesbit.) “Merry Christmas!” This I send On its way to you, my friend. ’Tis not new with me to-day, ’Tis an olden wish I pray — For when one is moved to say it He must sing it and must pray it. I but echo it anew, As I send it on to you; For it first rang from the sky When the angels chorused high, Their glad mystery revealing To the humble shepherds kneeling. ( I believe the kind God sent This CT ood wish of merriment, On that first fair Christinas dawn O-f the centuries agone; I believe God gives us gladness And that we make half our sadness. So I wish the joy that rang In the song the angels sang May find lodgings in your heart. Never from it to depart. “Merry Christmas!” —’Tis the olden Wish that came in voices golden.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1921, Page 2 (Supplement)
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151A MERRY CHRISTMAS WISH. Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1921, Page 2 (Supplement)
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