Excerpt from Holiday Selections: For Readings and Recitations, Specially Adapted to Christmas, New Year, Valentine's Day, Washington's Birthday, Easter, Arbor Day, Decoration Day, Fourth of July, and ThanksgivingGood tidings of great joy to you I bring! And so, from Heaven that night th' Evangel fell Beginnings of the Golden Times we tell! Now is the new Law Opened! Mary's son Hath Opened it, and, when full years are run, Peace shall be, and Good-will, and Mercy shed Over all flesh and spirit, quick and dead! The consummation comes, the purposed Bliss, Earth was for Now, her glad days spring from this i.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.