Like a hero in the battle hour!—
Brave emblems o’er the winter hearth,
They cheered our fathers’ hours of mirth!—
Twelve solar months complete and clear
The magic circle of the year!
Each (the ancient riddle saith)
Children, two times thirty, hath!
Three times ten are fair and white,
Three times ten are black as night,
Three times ten hath Hecatè,