| [NOTE] |
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| [PREFACE] |
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| [INTRODUCTION] |
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I
[ORIGIN] |
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| [Is There a Santa Claus?] | F.P. Church |
| [O Little Town of Bethlehem] | Phillips Brooks |
| [The Glad Evangel] | Kate Douglas Wiggin |
| [The Shepherds] | William Drummond |
| [A Christmas Carol] | James Russell Lowell |
| [A Christmas Hymn] | Alfred Domett |
| [Sons of the Morning] | Reginald Heber |
| [God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen] | Dinah Maria Mulock |
| [The Christmas Silence] | Margaret Deland |
| [A Christmas Lullaby] | John Addington Symonds |
| [Hymn for the Nativity] | Edward Thring |
| [Masters in this Hall] | Anonymous |
| [The Adoration of the Wise Men] | Cecil Frances Alexander |
| [The Shepherds in Judea] | Mary Austin |
| [Christmas Carol] | James S. Park |
| [Neighbors of the Christ Night] | Nora Archibald Smith |
| [Cradle Hymn] | Isaac Watts |
| [An Ode on the Birth of Our Saviour] | Robert Herrick |
| [Christmas Song] | Edmund Hamilton Sears |
| [A Hymn on the Nativity of My Saviour] | Ben Jonson |
| [The Shepherd's Song] | Edmund Bolton |
| [A Christmas Carol] | Aubrey de Vere |
| [A Christmas Hymn] | Anon |
| [Christmas Day] | Charles Wesley |
| [Christmas] | Anonymous |
| [Christmas] | Nahum Tate |
| "[While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night]" | Margaret Deland |
| [Colonial Christmases] | Alice Morse Earle |
| [The Angels] | William Drummond |
| [Hymn for Christmas] | Felicia Hemans |
| [New Prince, New Pomp] | Robert Southwell |
| [The Three Kings] | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| [Hymn on the Nativity] | John Milton |
II
[CELEBRATION] |
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| [Christmas Eve at Mr. Wardle's] | Charles Dickens |
| [A Visit from St. Nicholas] | Clement C. Moore |
| [A Christmas Piece] | Fred S. Cozzens |
| [Wassailer's Song] | Robert Southwell |
| [Christmas Eve] | Hamilton Wright Mabie |
| [Christmas In The Olden Time] | Walter Scott |
| [Sly Santa Claus] | Mrs. C.S. Stone |
| [The Waits] | Margaret Deland |
| [The Knighting of the Sirloin] | Anonymous |
| [The Christmas Goose at the Cratchits'] | Charles Dickens |
| [God Bless Us Every One] | James Whitcomb Riley |
| [Bells Across the Snow] | Frances Ridley Havergal |
| [Christmas Bells] | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| [Minstrels and Maids] | William Morris |
| [Inexhaustibility of the Subject of Christmas] | Leigh Hunt |
| [Song of the Holly] | William Shakespeare |
| [Under the Holly-Bough] | Charles Mackay |
| [Ceremonies for Christmas] | Robert Herrick |
| [Santa Claus] | Anonymous |
| [The Ceremonies for Christmas Day] | Robert Herrick |
| [December] | Harriet F. Blodgett |
| [The Festival of St. Nicholas] | Mary Mapes Dodge |
| [The Christmas Holly] | Eliza Cook |
| [To the Fir-Tree] | From the German |
| [The Mahogany-Tree] | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| [Christmas] | Washington Irving |
| [Church Decking at Christmas] | William Wordsworth |
| [So, Now is Come Our Joyful'st Feast] | George Wither |
| [Fairy Faces] | Anonymous |
| [Merry Christmas] | Anonymous |
| [A Merry Christmas to You] | Theodore Ledyard Cuyler |
| [Christmas Bells] | Anonymous |
| [The Birth of Christ] | Alfred Tennyson |
| [The Christmas Carol] | William Wordsworth |
| [Christmas at Fezziwig's Warehouse] | Charles Dickens |
| [Christmas Bells] | John Keble |
III
[SIGNIFICANCE AND SPIRIT] |
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| [A Christmas Carmen] | John G. Whittier |
| [The Spirit Of Christmas] | Charles Dickens |
| [On Good Wishes at Christmas] | Friswell |
| [A Christmas Song] | William Cox Bennett |
| [Sery] | Richard Watson Gilder |
| [A Christmas Song] | Tudor Jenks |
| [Christmas] | Alexander Smith |
| [Christmas Carol] | Phillips Brooks |
| [The End of the Play] | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| [Christ's Nativity] | Henry Vaughan |
| [Christmas Dreams] | Christopher North |
| [Keeping Christmas] | Henry Van Dyke |
| [Mark Well My Heavy, Doleful Tale] | Anonymous |
| [A Christmas Carol] | Christina G. Rossetti |
| [The Glorious Song of Old] | Edmund H. Sears |
| [A Christmas Carol for Children] | Martin Luther |
| [On Santa Claus] | George A. Baker, Jr |
| [A Christmas Carol] | Josiah Gilbert Holland |
| [An Offertory] | Mary Mapes Dodge |
| [Christmas Song] | Lydia A.C. Ward |
| [A Christmas Carol] | Christian Burke |
| [A Simple Bill of Fare for a Christmas Dinner] | H.H |
| [A Ballade of Old Loves] | Carolyn Wells |
| [Ballade of Christmas Ghosts] | Andrew Lang |
| [Hang Up the Baby's Stocking] | [Emily Huntington Miller] |
| [The Newest Thing in Christmas Carols] | Anonymous |
| [A Christmas Letter from Australia] | Douglas Sladen |
| [Christmas] | Rose Terry Cooke |
IV
[STORIES] |
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| [The Fir Tree] | Hans Christian Andersen |
| [Little Roger's Night in the Church] | Susan Coolidge |
| [Mr. Bluff's Experiences of Holidays] | Oliver Bell Bunce |
| [Santa Claus at Simpson's Bar] | Bret Harte |
V
[OLD CAROLS AND EXERCISES] |
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| [God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen] |
| [Old Christmas Returned] |
| [Christmas Carol] |
| [In Excelsis Gloria] |
| [The Boar's Head Carol] |
| [Christmas Carol] |
[ADDITIONAL PIECES]
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| [A Christmas Insurrection] | Anne P.L. Field |
| [The Night After Christmas] | Anne P.L. Field |
| [When the Stars of Morning San]g | Anne P.L. Field |
| [A Prayer at Bethlehem] | Anne P.L. Field |
| [The Christmas Fires] | Anne P.L. Field |
| [The Mother (A Story)] | Robert Haven Schauffler |
