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" SO now is come our joyful'st feast; Let every man be jolly, Each room with ivy leaves is drest, And every post with holly. Though some churls at our mirth repine, Round your foreheads garlands twine, Drown sorrow in a cup of wine, And let us all be merry.... "
Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages ... - Page 63
by Percy Society - 1841
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Old and New, Volume 8

Edward Everett Hale - Liberalism (Religion) - 1873 - 820 pages
...racy throughout. The whole may be found in Sandys' " Christmas Carols" and in other collections : — So, now is come our joyfulst feast, Let every man...with holly. Though some churls at our mirth repine, Hound your forehead garlands twine; Drown sorrow in a cup of wine, And let us all be merry. Now every...
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Light in Darkness: Autobiography of Mary A. Niemeyer

Mary A. Niemeyer - Blind - 1874 - 240 pages
...forgive, Than for offence to ask it." Thomson's Edmund and Eleonora. "So now is come our joyful' st feast; Let every man be jolly; Each room with ivy...mirth repine, Round your foreheads garlands twine, And let us all be merry." George Wither. Four months had elapsed since we had heard of the disappearance...
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Three centuries of English poetry: selections from Chaucer to Herrick, with ...

Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 454 pages
...So now is come our joyfullest part ; Let every man be jolly ; Each room with ivy-leaves is dressed, And every post with holly. Though some churls at our...And let us all be merry ! Now all our neighbours' chimneys smoke, And Christmas-blocks are burning ; Their ovens they with baked meat choke, And all...
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Three centuries of English poetry: selections from Chaucer to Herrick, with ...

Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 460 pages
...So now is come our joyfullest part; Let every man be jolly ; Each room with ivy-leaves is dressed, And every post with holly. Though some churls at our...And let us all be merry ! Now all our neighbours' chimneys smoke, And Christmas-blocks are burning ; Their ovens they with baked meat choke, And all...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...while Will sit and smile To see you spend your time in vain. Christmas. So now is come our joyfulest y, and I know What he said then— I 'm * deer.' But Sylvio dresseil, And every post with holly. Though some churls at our mirth repine, Round your foreheads garlands...
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An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature, Volume 4

Edward Arber - English literature - 1882 - 664 pages
...in vain ! For Tree and Fruit shall spring again. A Christmas Carol. 0, NOW, is come our joyful' st feast ; Let every man be jolly ! Each room with ivy...And let us all be merry ! Now, all our neighbours' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks be burning ; Their ovens, they with baked meats choke, A nd all...
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The Household Book of Poetry

Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...dawn, Blue-devil sprite ; Leave us to-night, Round the old tree ! WILLIAU MAKEPEACE ТПА CHRISTMAS. So now is come our joyful'st feast; Let every man...And every post with holly. Though some churls at our mirlh repine, Round your foreheads garlands twine, Drown sorrow in a cup of wine. And let us all be...
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Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 2; Volume 15

Anthologies - 1879 - 760 pages
...some of them none at all. Dana's rescuesthis of "Wither's from the obscurity of the author's works : ' So now is come our joyful'st feast ; Let every man be jolly ; Each room with ivy leaves is d rest, And every 1*0.4 with holly. Though some churls at our mirth repine. Round your foreheads garlands...
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Southbooke

Sutton Selwyn Scott - Southern States - 1880 - 340 pages
...us quote a few verses. They are well worth reading, and especially so just as this time. CHRISTMAS. So now is come our joyful'st feast, Let every man...cup of wine, And let us all be merry. Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning ; Their ovens they with baked-meat choke,...
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Ben Jonson to Dryden

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 536 pages
...been admired; And, in such brave strains had moved As of all had been approved. A CHRISTMAS CAROL. So now is come our joyfulst feast ; Let every man...a cup of wine, And let us all be merry. ***** Now every lad is wondrous trim, And no man minds his labour; Our lasses have provided them A bag-pipe and...
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