...FIFTH. MARMION. 3]ntrotmctfon to Canto 2 p TO RICHARD HEBER, ESQ. Mertoun-House, Christmas. JLIEAP on more wood ! — the wind is chill ; But let it...as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. Each age has deemed the new-born year Fit time for festival and cheer : . Even heathen yet, the savage...

...domestic scenes of modern times ;' nut we select for our •pecimeu, the bard's recollection of Christmas. And well our Christian sires of old * Loved, when the year its course had rolled, And brOiiglifWtthe Cbrisimass back again, "ith all his hospitable train. Domestic and religious rite Gave...

...CANTO FIFTH. MARMION. 3lntrrotriictIon to Canto &vtg, TO RICHARD HEBER, ESQ. Mertoun-House, Christmas. HEAP on more wood ! — the wind is chill ; But let...as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer : Even heathen yet, the savage...

...END OF CANTO FIFTH. MARMION. f ntrotmctf0n to Canto TO RICHARD HEBER, ESQ. Mertoun-House, Christmas. HEAP on more wood ! — the wind is chill ; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christinas merry still. Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer : Even...

...OF CANTO FIFTH. MARMION. 3f nttcfourtfon to Canto TO RICHARD HEBER, ESQ. Mertoun-Houie, Chrislmat. HEAP on more wood ! — the wind is chill ; But let...as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer : Even heathen yet, the savage...

...the dawning day. END OF CANTO FIFTH. * CANTO SIXTH. TO RICHARD HEBER, Es*. Merloun-House, Christmas. HEAP on more wood! — the wind is chill, But let...it will, « We'll keep our Christmas merry still. Each age has deemed the new-horn year Fit time for festival and cheer : E'en heathen yet, the savage...

...Martha's ' London particular,' may not he reckoned among the least. For what says Sir Walter Scott — ' Heap on more wood, the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our merry Christmas still.' But for all this enumeration of the comforts and advantages which these seasons...

...Introduction to Canto ©ijctjj. TO RICHARD HEBER, Esa. Mertoun-House, Christmas. HEAP on more wood!—the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. Each age has deem'd the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer: Even heathen yet, the savage...

...dawning day. MARMION. 3[ntrot>uctton to Canto ^>uil). TO RICHARD HEBER, ESQ. Mertoun-Houte, Christmas. HEAP on more wood ! — the wind is chill ; But let...as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. Each age has deem'd the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer : Even heathen yet, the savage...

...barbarous mirth the while, As best might to the mind recal The boisterous joys of Odin's hall. • And well our Christian sires of old Loved when the year its course had roll'd, And brought blithe Christmas back again, With all his hospitable train. Domestic and religious...