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,