Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her. The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when—the match went out. The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven; one fell down and formed a long trail of fire.
.A Little fir grew in the midst of the wood
Contented and happy, as young trees should.
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Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night, sailed off in a wooden shoe…
If the butterfly courted the bee,
And the owl the porcupine;
If the churches were built in the sea,
And three times one was nine…
A funny short story by Joseph Jacobs.
The Gentleman had never met such silly people as his fiancee’s family, so he sets off to find some even sillier than them before marrying the daughter.
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A Robert Louis Stevenson Poem..
At evening when the lamp is lit,
Around the fire my parents sit;
From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod.
I Saw a Peacock, with a fiery tail,
I saw a Blazing Comet, drop down hail,
We built a ship upon the stairs
All made of the back-bedroom chairs,
And filled it full of sofa pillows
To go a-sailing on the billows.