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Issue Details: First known date: 1901... 1901 A Happy Christmastide
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Notes

  • Epigraph: At Christmas play, and make good cheer,/For Christmas comes but once a year. - T. Tusser
  • England was merry England, when/ Old Christmas brought his sports again./..../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 of all the year,/ Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear. - Sir Walter Scott
  • Poems on a variety of subjects including 'The Rose and the Tomb', a translation from Victor Hugo.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: J. Roy Stevens , 1901 .
      Extent: 18p.
      Edition info: 2nd.ed.
      Description: illus.
      Written as: M. Watson, S.J.
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