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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Yule-Log Ceremony

By Myths and Folk-Lore of the Aryan Peoples

KINDLE the Christmas brand, and then

Till sunne-set, let it burne;

Which quencht, then lay it up agen,

Till Christmas next returne.

Part must be kept wherewith to teend

The Christmas log next yeare;

And where ’tis safely kept, the fiend

Can do no mischiefe there.