1
A free download from manybooks.net
Project Gutenberg's Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse, by Eugene Field
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
Title: Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse
Author: Eugene Field
Illustrator: Florence Storer
Release Date: January 29, 2006 [EBook #17630]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
- START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHRISTMAS TALES AND ***
Produced by Jason Isbell, Sankar Viswanathan, and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
[Illustration: Frontispiece]
CHRISTMAS TALES AND CHRISTMAS VERSE
BY
EUGENE FIELD
ILLUSTRATIONS BY FLORENCE STORER
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS MCMXII
Copyright, 1912, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Published October, 1912
_Why do the bells of Christmas ring?
Why do little children sing?
Once a lovely shining star,
Seen by shepherds from afar,
Gently moved until its light
Made a manger's cradle bright.
There a darling baby lay,
Pillowed soft