James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902.
December 24Christmas Eve
By London Public OpinionA Scandinavian Legend
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Mistress, spin no more.
Master, seven good candles light;
The dead are at the door.
Happed in the salt sod,
She, that at white Pentecost
Left as for her God.
One for bridal clad;
One with golden locks a-flow,
Just a little lad.
By the old sea-wall;
Mistress, they that part shall meet—
Christ was born for all.
Sprigs of rosemary set,
That the blessed dead may know
We remember yet.
Put green boughs about;
We too be rememberèd
When our day is out!