...the olden time) the very season is considered sacredly wholesome against all unnatural harms : — " Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes. Wherein...Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome...

...and connect together its more special and characteristic observances. CHRISTMAS EVE. 24TH DECEMBER. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The...

...and of the truth herein This present object made probation. Mar. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then...

...der Bühne zur Geltung komme. Von der Anspielung des Marceline auf das Hahnenkrähen im Frühling — 'ever 'gainst that season comes wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated the bird of dawning singeth all night long' — heißt es hier: 'Such pure poetical counterpoint seems beyond the scope...

...HOMESTEAD," «C WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY DUNCAN, ENGRAVED BY LINTON. H. HT'RST, KING WILLIAM ST.. STB AND. "Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad , The...

...earnest devotion. The very superstitions of the people were hallowed by their confiding belief : — Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad ; The nights are wholesome ;...

...population. Perhaps the finest of them is that alluded to by Shakespeare in the following lines: " Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...SAVIOUR'S birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long ; And then, they say, no spirit dare» stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome...

...cattle to kneel in their stalls, their heads bowed to the eut, as if in dévotion.t Shakspere writes, " Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long ; And then they say no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ;...

...population. Perhaps the finest of them is that alluded to by Shakespeare in the following lines: " Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...SAVIOUR'S birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long ; And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome...

...Christmas eve, you will find the animals on their knees. EUSEBIA. And Shakspere will tell you that "Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...SAVIOUR'S Birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning croweth all night long." PISTUS. A trueV symbolism than any of the above is, I think, to be foundjn...