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              IN THE
                 YULE-LOG GLOW


              CHRISTMAS POEMS FROM
                'ROUND THE WORLD


  "Sic as folk tell ower at a winter ingle"
                                            _Scott_


                   EDITED BY
               HARRISON S. MORRIS


                IN FOUR BOOKS
                   Book IV.


                 PHILADELPHIA
            J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
                     1900.


[Illustration: Christmas Weather]


Copyright, 1891, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.

PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA.




ILLUSTRATIONS, BOOK IV.


CHRISTMAS WEATHER                              Frontispiece.

"WHAT CAN I GIVE HIM?"                               Page 90

THE SEASON'S REVERIES                                 "  174

"TOO HAPPY, HAPPY TREE"                               "  212




CONTENTS OF BOOK IV.


SUNG UNDER THE WINDOW.                                  PAGE

  Who's There?                                             9

  God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen                           10

  Welcome Yule                                            12

  Angel Heralds                                           14

  The Matchless Maiden                                    15

  Remember, O Thou Man                                    16

  The Singers in the Snow                                 19

  A Christmas Chorus                                      21

  Three Ships                                             22

  Jacob's Ladder                                          24

  Saint Stephen, the Clerk                                26

  The Carnal and the Crane                                29

  The Holy Well                                           35

  The Holly and the Ivy                                   38

  The Contest of the Vines                                39

  Ane Sang of the Birth of Christ                         41

  Christmas Minstrelsy                                    43

  The Old, Old Story                                      47

  A Christmas Ballad                                      49

  A French Noel[A]                                        52

  Masters, in this Hall                                   54


THE WORSHIP OF THE BABE.

  To His Saviour, a Child; a Present, by a Child          59

  Honor to the King                                       60

  New Prince, New Pomp                                    62

  Of the Epiphany                                         64

  A Hymn for the Epiphany                                 66

  A Hymn on the Nativity of My Saviour                    68

  At Christmas                                            70

  New Heaven, New War                                     72

  For Christmas Day                                       73

  Sung to the King in the Presence at Whitehall           75

  And They Laid Him in a Manger                           77

  The Burning Babe                                        79

  Christ's Nativity                                       81

  An Ode on the Birth of Our Saviour                      83

  Who Can Forget?                                         85

  The Child Jesus                                         87

  Long Ago                                                89

  Star of Bethlehem                                       91

  No Room                                                 92

  On Christmas Day                                        94

  The Heavenly Choir                                      96


THE WASSAIL-BOWL.

  Wassail                                                103

  Invitation a Faire Noel                                105

  A Thanksgiving                                         107

  Around the Wassail-Bowl                                108

  From Door to Door                                      111

  Wassailing Carol                                       113

  A Carol at the Gates                                   116

  Wandering Wassailers                                   118

  Bring Us in Good Ale                                   120

  About the Board                                        122

  Before the Feast                                       