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The Birds' Christmas Carol (1886) (Kate Douglas Wiggin)

And so the old years, fraught with memories, die, one after another, and the new years, bright with hopes, are born to take their places; but Carol lives again in every chime of Christmas bells that peal glad tidings and in every Christmas anthem sung by childish voices.

[originally posted: 2004-12-25]