 | Agnes Strickland - Queens - 1848 - 410 pages
...bourgeoned, and blossomed, and yearly produced blossoms to decorate the altar on Christmas-eve mass — " That only night in all the year Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear." WoBDSWOHTH. The Pere seems to enjoy very much the following anecdote of Charles I., •hough it was... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1871 - 732 pages
...knows that mass was never sung or said at midnight, save on Christmas night : — " On Christmas night the mass was sung : That only night in all the year Saw the staled priest the chalice rear." — Scott. and I have shown that St. Mary Magdalen died before the... | |
 | Bevelled edge boards (Binding) - 1851 - 216 pages
...Domestic and religious rite Gave honour to the holy night : On Christmas eve the bells were rung ; On Christmas eve the mass was sung ; That only night,...was dressed with holly green ; Forth to the wood did merry men go, To gather in the mistletoe; Then opened wide the baron's hall To vassal, tenant, serf,... | |
 | Christmas - 1852 - 236 pages
...Domestic and religious rite Gave honour to the holy night : On Christmas eve the bells were rung ; On Christmas eve the mass was sung ; That only night,...was dressed with holly green ; Forth to the wood did merry men go, To gather in the mistletoe; Then opened wide the baron's hall To vassal, tenant, serf,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 588 pages
...religious rite Gave honor to the holy night : On Christmas-eve the bells were rung, On Christmas-eve the mass was sung. That only night in all the year...Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear. The damsel donn'd her kirtle sheen ; The hall was dress'd with holly green ; Forth to the wood did merry-men go... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Plants - 1854 - 780 pages
...hung up in the great hall, with loud shouts and rejoicing. " On Christmas Eve the belle were rung; On Christmas Eve the mass was sung : That only night...stoled priest the chalice rear. The damsel donned her kirtlc sheen ; The hall was dressed with holly green : Forth to the woods did merry men go, To gather... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 592 pages
...and hung up in the great hall with loud shouts of rejoicing. On Christmas eve the bella were rung ; On Christmas eve the mass was sung ; That only night...the year Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear. THE MISLETOE. 551 The damsel donned her kirtle sheen : The hall was dressed with holly green : Forth to... | |
 | William Gideon Michael Jones Barker - Wensleydale (England) - 1854 - 380 pages
...reverentially attended in every town and village ; and duly " On Christmas eve the bells were rung : On Christmas eve the mass was sung ; That only night...the year, Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear. ***** All hail'd, with uncontroll'd delight, And general voice, the happy night, That to the cottage,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 pages
...Domestic and religious rite Gave honour to the holy night ; On Christmas eve the bells were rung ; On Christmas eve the mass was sung : That only night...Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear. The damsel donu'd her kirtle sheen ; The hall was dress'd with holly green ; Forth to the wood did merry men go,... | |
 | Anne Pratt - Botany - 1855 - 424 pages
...up in hall or kitchen with loud shouts and rejoicing : — " On Christmas Eve the bells were rung ; On Christmas Eve the mass was sung ; That only night...Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear; The damsel donn'd her kirtle sheen : The hall was dress'd with Holly green ; Forth to the woods did merry-men... | |
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On Christmas eve the bells were rung; On Christmas eve the mass was sung ; That only night, in all the year, Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear. 
