 | Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - Herefordshire (England) - 1907 - 412 pages
...cheer 340 Oa Christmas eve the bells were rung ; On Christmas eve the mass was sung. The damsel donn'd her kirtle sheen ; The hall was dressed with holly green, Forth to the wood did merry men go To gather in the Mistletoe." Had a single sprig of Mistletoe grown in the domain of Abbotsford,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 684 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 n»Try-men go, To gather in the misletoe. Then opened wide the baron's hall To vassal, tenant, serf,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 474 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 donn'd her kirtle sheen ; The hall was dress'd with holly green ; Forth to the wood did merry-men go,... | |
 | Archaeology - 1884 - 388 pages
...gathered and hung up in the great hall amidst much riotous rejoicing. As Walter Scott writes : — " The damsel donned her kirtle sheen, The Hall was dressed with holly green ; Forth to the woods did merry men go, To gather in the misletoe ; Then open wide the Baron's hall To vassal, tenant,... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1882 - 780 pages
...&:»ncstic and religious rite G«r honour to the holy night ; On Christmas eve the bells were rung ; Wn Christmas eve the mass was sung : That only night in all the year, Sw the staled priest the chalice rear. The damsel donn'd her kirtle sheen ; The- hall was dress'd with... | |
 | Frederick Langbridge - 1883 - 438 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,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 184 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 donn'd her kirtle sheen ; The hall was dress'd with holly green ; Forth to the wood did merry-men go,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 182 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 donn'd her kirtle sheen ; The hall was dress'd with holly green ; Forth to the wood did merry-men go,... | |
 | Alessio Aurelio Pelliccia - Church polity - 1883 - 637 pages
...described in the well-known lines of Scott : " On Christmas-eve the bells were rung ; On Christmas-eve the mass was sung ; That only night, in all the year, Saw the stolecl priest the chalice rear. " But though the old midnight Easter-eve Mass is celebrated now on... | |
| |
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. 
