For toasting of that holy Child,”

Said Long. “Them Jews was blind,” said he;

“But not so blind as we will be.”

They drank Him once, and twice, and thrice;

The main brace they began to splice.

A child’s voice wailed outside the door:

“O, let me enter, I implore!

“’Tis freezing cold, and dark, and dire.

O, let me warm me at your fire!”

“No place for children here,” said Long,