A Song for Christmas Eve.

A SONG FOR XMAS EVE. 

BY FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN. 

 Come, draw around the fire, 

And watch the sparks that go 

All singing like a fairy choir 

Into the realms of snow. 

Above us evergreen, 

With mistletoe in sprays, 

And tenderly the leaves between 

The holly-berries blaze. 

And while the logs burn bright, 

Before the day takes wing, 

The happy children, gowned in white, 

Their merry carols sing. 

Then high the stockings lift,

Like hungry beggars dumb,  

Good Santa claus, bring every gift, 

And fill them when you come! 

--from Harper's Round Table. New York, Tuesday, December 24, 1895. The below print is a sketch by renowned 1860's political cartoonist Thomas Nast, whom many consider to be the man who invented our modern day depictions of Santa Claus.