I sit to-night by the firelight,     And I look at the glowing flame,    And I see in the bright red flashes     A Heart, a Face, and…

   Betimes, I seem to see in dreams     What when awake I may not see;     Can night be God’s more than the day?     Do stars, not…

    And “Happy! Happy! Happy!”     Rang the bells of all the hours;    “Shyly! Shyly! Shyly!”     Looked and listened all the flowers;    They were wakened from their slumbers,     By…

    Each year cometh with all his days,     Some are shadowed and some are bright;    He beckons us on until he stays     Kneeling with us ‘neath Christmas…

   Sweet, blessed beads! I would not part     With one of you for richest gem     That gleams in kingly diadem;    Ye know the history of my heart….

   Oft within our little cottage,     As the shadows gently fall,    While the sunlight touches softly     One sweet face upon the wall,    Do we gather close together,     And…

    The olden golden stories of the world,        That stirred the past,     And now are dim as dreams,    The lays and legends which the bards unfurled        In lines that…

    They come, as the breeze comes over the foam,     Waking the waves that are sinking to sleep —    The fairest of memories from far-away home,     The…

    Gather the sacred dust         Of the warriors tried and true,    Who bore the flag of a Nation’s trust    And fell in a cause, though lost, still just,        …

    When I am dead, and all will soon forget     My words, and face, and ways —    I, somehow, think I’ll walk beside thee yet     Adown thy…