 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pagina’s
...honor to the holy night : On Christmas eve the bells were rung; On Christmas eve the mass was sung ; That only night, in all the year, Saw the stoled priest...Forth to the wood did merry-men go, To gather in the mistletoe. Then opened wide the baron's hall To vassal, tenant, serf, and all ; Power laid his rod... | |
 | Christmas - 1852 - 232 pagina’s
...honour to the holy night : On Christmas eve the bells were rung ; On Christmas eve the mass was sung : That only night, in all the year, Saw the stoled priest...was dressed with holly green ; Forth to the wood did merry men go, To gather in the mistletoe; Then opened wide the baron's hall To vassal, tenant, serf,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pagina’s
...honor to the holy night : On Christmas-eve the bells were rung, On Christmas-eve the mass was sung. That only night in all the year Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear. The damsel donn'd her kirtle sheen ; The hall was dress'd with holly green ; Forth to the wood did merry-men go... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1854 - 780 pagina’s
...shouts and rejoicing. " On Christmas Eve the belle were rung; On Christmas Eve the mass was sung : That only night in all the year Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear. The damsel donned her kirtlc sheen ; The hall was dressed with holly green : Forth to the woods did merry men go, To gather... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 pagina’s
...loud shouts of rejoicing. On Christmas eve the bella were rung ; On Christmas eve the mass was sung ; That only night in all the year Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear. THE MISLETOE. 551 The damsel donned her kirtle sheen : The hall was dressed with holly green : Forth to... | |
 | William Gideon Michael Jones Barker - 1854 - 366 pagina’s
...and village ; and duly " On Christmas eve the bells were rung : On Christmas eve the mass was sung ; That only night in all the year, Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear. ***** All hail'd, with uncontroll'd delight, And general voice, the happy night, That to the cottage,... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1855 - 424 pagina’s
...shouts and rejoicing : — " On Christmas Eve the bells were rung ; On Christmas Eve the mass was sung ; That only night in all the year Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear; The damsel donn'd her kirtle sheen : The hall was dress'd with Holly green ; Forth to the woods did merry-men... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 418 pagina’s
...honour to the holy knight ; On Christmas eve the bells were rupg ; On Christmas eve the mass was snng : That only night in all the year, Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear.' The damsel donn'd her kirtle sheen ; The hall was dress'd with holly green ; Forth to the wood did merry-men go,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 pagina’s
...honour to the holy night ; On Christmas eve the bells were rung ; On Christmas eve the mass was sung : That only night in all the year, Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear. The damsel donu'd her kirtle sheen ; The hall was dress'd with holly green ; Forth to the wood did merry men go,... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Jacobs Peterson, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Robert Taylor Conrad, Joseph Ripley Chandler, Bayard Taylor - 1855 - 632 pagina’s
...sung ; That only night, in all ihc year Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear. The damsel donned h( r kirtle sheen ; The hall was dressed with holly green ; Forth to the wood did merry men go, To gather in the mistletoe ; Then opened wide the baron's hall To vassal, tenant, serf,... | |
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On Christmas eve the bells were rung; On Christmas eve the mass was sung ; That only night, in all the year, Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear. 
