...it, when I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. XXVIII. The time draws near the birth of Christ : The moon is hid ; the night is still ; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. Four voices of four hamlets...

...Voice of the Morning. A. blockhead with melodious voice In boarding-schools can have his choice. SWIFT. The time draws near the birth of Christ : The moon is hid ; the night is still ; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. Four voices of four hamlets...

...most : "Tie better to have loved and lost Thau uever to have loved at all. XXViii. THE time draws uear the birth of Christ : • The moon is hid ; the night is still : The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. Four voices of four hamlets...

...of sheet and shroud, We steer'd her toward a crimson cloud That landlike slept along the deep. cm. THE time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid, the night is still ; A single church below tne hill Is pealing, folded in the mist. A single peal of bells below, That wakens at this hour of...

...it, when I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. XXVI It. The time draws near the birth of Christ : The moon is hid ; the night is still ; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. Four voices of four hamlets...

...suit the circumstances of the present night, and which are among the sweetest in the language : — The time draws near the birth of Christ : The moon is hid ; the night is still ; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. Four voices of four hamlets...

...that strange visit with the North Wind to Schlaraffenland. CHAPTER XII. DECEMBER — CHRISTMAS EVE. " The time draws near the birth of Christ, The moon is hid, the night is still, The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist." — Tennyson. ,VER hill and dale...

...blest. September, 1S52. Dublin L'nircnUg Mayazinc. 39 THE MERRY MERRY BELLS OF YULE. By Alfred Tennyson. The time draws near the birth of Christ : The moon is hid ; the night is still ; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the midst. Four voices of four hamlets...

...weary of repeating it, and without this strength life is a burden too heavy to be borne." CHAPTER XI. " The time draws near the birth of Christ, The moon is hid, the night is still ; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. " This year I slept and woke...

...it, when l sorrow most ; T is better to have loved ami lost Than never to have loved at all. XXVIII. THE time draws near the birth of Christ : The moon is hid ; the night is still ; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. Four voices of four hamlets...