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First Line: Happy, believe, this christmas eve
Last Line: Evermore hang the stocking out!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


Happy, believe, this Christmas Eve
Are Willie and Rob and Nellie and May --
Happy in hope! in hope to receive
These stockings well stuffed from Santa Claus' sleigh.

O the delight to believe in a wight
More than mortal, with something of man,
Whisking about, an invisible spright,
Almoner blest of Oberon's clan.

Stay, Truth, O stay in a long delay!
Why should these little ones find you out?
Let them forever with fable play,
Evermore hang the Stocking out!





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