{"id":3572,"date":"2013-12-20T08:16:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T06:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2013-12-20T08:16:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T06:16:37","slug":"christmas-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3572","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a title=\"blue1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blue1.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3573 alignleft\" alt=\"blue1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blue1.jpg\" width=\"422\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><br \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\"><strong>Christmas Morning<\/strong> <br \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">I.<br \/> Come all you weary wanderers,<br \/> Beneath the wintry sky;<br \/> This day forget your worldly cares,<br \/> And lay your sorrows by;<br \/> Awake, and sing<br \/> The church bells ring;<br \/> For this is Christmas morning!<\/p>\n<p> II.<\/p>\n<p> With grateful hearts salute the morn,<br \/> And swell the streams of song,<br \/> That laden with great joy are borne,<br \/> The willing air along;<br \/> The tidings thrill<br \/> With right good will;<br \/> For this is Christmas morning!<\/p>\n<p> III.<\/p>\n<p> We&#8217;ll twine the fresh green holly wreath,<br \/> And make the yule-log low;<br \/> And gather gaily underneath<br \/> The winking mistletoe;<br \/> All blithe and bright<br \/> By the glad fire-light;<br \/> For this is Christmas morning!<\/p>\n<p> IV.<\/p>\n<p> Come, sing the carols old and true,<br \/> That mind us of good cheer,<br \/> And, like a heavenly fall of dew,<br \/> Revive the drooping year;<br \/> And fill us up<br \/> A wassail-cup ;<br \/> For this is Christmas morning!<\/p>\n<p> V.<\/p>\n<p> To all poor souls we I strew the feast,<br \/> With kindly heart, and free;<br \/> One Father owns us, and, at least,<br \/> To-day we&#8217;ll brothers be;<br \/> Away with pride,<br \/> This holy tide ;<br \/> For it is Christmas morning!<\/p>\n<p> VI.<\/p>\n<p> So now, God bless us one and all<br \/> With hearts and hearthstones warm<br \/> And may He prosper great and small,<br \/> And keep us out of harm;<br \/> And teach us still,<br \/> His sweet good-will,<br \/> This merry Christmas morning!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Edwin Waugh<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3575,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions\/3575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}