{"id":761,"date":"2010-12-12T00:41:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T00:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=761"},"modified":"2017-07-11T05:45:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T05:45:50","slug":"ballade-of-christmas-by-andrew-lang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/ballade-of-christmas-by-andrew-lang\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballade of Christmas by Andrew Lang"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ballade of Christmas
\nby Andrew Lang<\/p>\n

Between the moonlight and the fire
\nIn winter twilights long ago,
\nWhat ghosts we raised for your desire,
\nTo make your merry blood run slow!
\nHow old, how grave, how wise we grow!
\nNo Christmas ghost can make us chill,
\nSave those that troop in mournful row,
\nThe ghosts we all can raise at will!<\/p>\n

The beasts can talk in barn and byre
\nOn Christmas Eve, old legends know.
\nAs year by year the years retire,
\nWe men fall silent then I trow,
\nSuch sights hath memory to show,
\nSuch voices from the silence thrill,
\nSuch shapes return with Christmas snow,?
\nThe ghosts we all can raise at will.<\/p>\n

Oh, children of the village choir,
\nYour carols on the midnight throw,
\nOh, bright across the mist and mire,
\nYe ruddy hearths of Christmas glow!
\nBeat back the dread, beat down the woe,
\nLet’s cheerily descend the hill;
\nBe welcome all, to come or go,
\nThe ghosts we all can raise at will.<\/p>\n

ENVOY<\/p>\n

Friend, sursum corda, soon or slow
\nWe part, like guests who’ve joyed their fill;
\nForget them not, nor mourn them so,
\nThe ghosts we all can raise at will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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