Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

The Christmas dinner, from "The sketch book"

_Lo! now is come our joyful’st feast!_ _Let every man be jolly;_ _Eache roome with yvie leaves is drest,_ _And every post with holly._ _Now all our neighbours’ chimneys smoke,_ _And Christmas blocks are burning;_ _Their ovens they with bak’t meats choke,_ _And all their spits...