What shadows seem to flit about?
Is it the mother, then, who died,
Ere the greens were sere last Christmastide?
Hush, falling chimes! Cease, cease, my rhymes!
The guests are gathered now.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
By permission of Houghton Mifflin Company
IV
CHRISTMAS CAROLS
- CHRISTMAS CAROLS
- "I saw Three Ships"
- "Lordings, listen to Our Lay"
- The Cherry-Tree Carol
- "In Excelsis Gloria"
- "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen"
- The Golden Carol
- Caput apri refero resonens laudes domino
- "Villagers All, this Frosty Tide"
- Holly Song
- "Before the Paling of the Stars"
- The Minstrels played their Christmas Tune
- A Carol from the Old French
- "From Far Away we come to you"
- A Christmas Carol
- A Christmas Carol for Children