all hail to the days that merit more praise than all the rest of the year and welcome the nights that double delights as well for the poor as the peer sweet blessings attend each merry mans friend that doth but the best that he may forgetting old wrongs with poems and songs to drive the cold winter away tis ill for the mind to anger inclined to think of small injuries now if wrath be to seek dont lend her they cheek dont let her inhabit thy brow cross out of thy books malevolent looks both beauty and youths decay and spend the long nights in honest delights to drive the cold winter away this time of the year is spent in good cheer with neighbors together to meet to sit by the fire with friendly desire with others in love to greet old grudges forgot are put in the pot all sorrows aside they lay the old and the young doth carol this song to drive the cold winter away