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Now Christmas is come,
Let us beat up the drum,
And call all our neighbours together;
And when they appear
Let us make them such cheer
As will keep out the wind and the weather.
Editor's Note:
Quoted by Washington Irving in the "Christmas
Eve" chapter of
Old Christmas,
but I have not been able to find the full carol. Old Christmas is a
portion of a longer work,
Sketch Book
of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
