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A VISIT FROM SAINT NICHOLAS.
Illustration
ILLUSTRATED FROM DRAWINGS
By F.O.C. Darley.
NEW YORK:
JAMES G. GREGORY, PUBLISHER.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862 by JAMES G. GREGORY,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the
Southern District of New York.
[Illustration: Saint Nicholas]
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N. ORR, Engraver.
C.A. ALVORD, Printer.
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A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS.
By Clement C. Moore.
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;
And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap--
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When out on the lawn there rose such a clatter,
I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter,
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon, on the breast of the new-fallen snow,
Gave a lustre of mid-day to objects below;
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny rein-deer,
With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St.
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