Ye hae my heart, ye needna fear, 'Twas but yestreen my mither said, 66 "O dautie, dinna marry yet; I'll sune be in my last cauld bed Ye're a' my comfort, tarry yet." Whene'er I slip out o' her sicht, She sobs and sighs, and nocht gangs richt; Whisht! 'tis her feeble voice-gude nicht; I daurna, mauna marry yet. Fürcht' nichts! mein Herz ist Dein fürwahr, Die Mutter mir erst gestern sagt', Du einz'ger Trost, drum weile noch. D Christmas Hymn. BY HEBER. Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid. Cold on his cradle the dewdrops are shining, Angels adore him in slumber reclining, Maker and Monarch and Saviour of all. Say, shall we yield him in costly devotion, Vainly we offer each ample oblation, Vainly with gold would his favour secure, Richer by far is the heart's adoration, Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor. Weihnachtslied. VON HEBER. Hellster und bester der Orients-Söhne, Kalt auf der Wiege die Thautropfen scheinen, Niedrig sein Bett bei dem Vich in dem Stall, Engel ihn preisen, den Schlafenden, Reinen, Schöpfer, und König, und Heiland dem All. Sollen wir opfern ihm köstliche Ehre, Edom's Gerüche von göttlichem Werth', Gemmen vom Verge, und Perlen vom Meere, Myrrhe vom Walde und Gold aus der Erd'? Wir bring'n vergebens die reichste Bescherung, The Raben. BY E. A. PO E. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten loreWhile I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door; ""Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door Only this, and nothing more." Ah! distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December, And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me-filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, ""Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door: This it is, and nothing more." |