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tim graham - old christmastide (an extract) by sir walter scott lyrics

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the alms which open+hearted charity
bestows, with kindly glance; and those
which e’en stern avarice
though with unwilling hand
seems forced to tender; an offering sweet
to the bright throne of mercy; mark
this day a festival
and well our christian sires of old
loved when the year its course had roll’d

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;
then open’d wide the baron’s hall
to vassal ++ tenant ++ serf and all:
power laid his rod of rule aside
and ceremony doff’d his pride

- tim graham lyrics

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