The ninth day of December calls for nine Christmas quotes. These are a mixture but all linked through the Christmas tree. Ours arrives on Thursday this week and will be decorated on Saturday. Very excited!
"In the farmhouse of Quoydunt all was gaiety. The walls reflected the spirit of the season with a colourful assortment of paper decorations, holly and mistletoe, fairy lights, and Chinese lanterns, and in one corner of the kitchen stood an attractive little Christmas Tree, laden with gifts in fancy wrappings."
(from "The Ghost Of Ezekiel Drever" by R. T. Johnston, "Stenwick Days")
"After a lot of work, the Christmas tree was ready.
The waxwings pecked off twigs of frozen rowan berries and hung them here and there. The jackdaws came with wild red apples. The magpie brought along all kinds of things it found on its travels: bits of glass, bottle tops, and pieces of silver foil. The tree was also full of colourful feathers that the birds had plucked from their own plumage.
Oh, how beautiful it was!"(from "The Yule Tomte And The Little Rabbits" by Ulf Stark and Eva Eriksson)
"The Christmas tree posed with its lights in its arms,
Newly tinselled and baubled with glittering charms;
Flirting in flickers of crimson and green
Against the dull glass of the mute TV screen."(from "Another Night Before Christmas" by Carol Ann Duffy)
" . . .the children have to sit on their hands, enjoy what was in their stockings, and bide themselves until I get back. They are not allowed to touch their main presents under the Christmas tree until the sheep are fed and I come back in and I have had my breakfast. I'm not sure how long it has been like that in our family, but the lesson is a simple one. The farm and the livestock, and the men and women that work, come first."
( from "The Shepherd's Life" by James Rebanks)
"We sang "O Come All Ye Faithful" at the Fox and Feathers, under their ten-foot-high, lighted Christmas tree, and "See Amid the Winter's Snow" beside the iced-over pond."
(from "The Magic Apple Tree" by Susan Hill)
"The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature."
(Andrew Aitken Rooney, American writer and broadcaster)
"To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature."
(from "Under The Greenwood Tree" by Thomas Hardy)
"Your boughs are green in summer's glow,
And do not fade in winter's snow.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
You stand in verdant beauty."(Ernst Anschuetz)
- and finally a little bit of a good fun Christmas song which has happy memories for our family -
"Rockin' around the Christmas tree
At the Christmas party hop,
Mistletoe hung where you can see,
Every couple tries to stop."
At the Christmas party hop,
Mistletoe hung where you can see,
Every couple tries to stop."
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