A LAMENT FOR CHRISTMAS
... (From a Correspondent.) Long expected Christmas lias made his appearance ; but how changed in attire and manners; how unlike the Christmas of which the poet sings : •• Now Christmas, with hla wassail bowl. Laughs the wind, and frost, and snow; Ami creeps for warmth, where bright eye* roll Beneath the merry mistletoe.” When these lines wore written it evident that Christmas was jovial, merry ...