Christmas Hymn

Christmas Hymn.
by Eugene Field

(During this recitation let the piano be played very softly in running chords that resolve into the key of a Christmas carol which is taken up and sung by the entire school at the end of the poem.)

Sing, Christmas bells!

Say to the earth this is the morn

Whereon our Savior-King is born;

Sing to all men -- the bond, the free,

The rich, the poor, the high, the low,

The little child that sports in glee,

The aged folk that tottering go,--

Proclaim the morn

That Christ is born,

That saveth them and saveth me!

Sing angel host !

Sing of the stars that God has placed

Above the manger in the east.

Sing of the glories of the night,

The Virgin's sweet humility,

The Babe with kingly robes bedight, ‚--

Sing to all men where'er they be

This Christmas morn

For Christ is born,

That saveth them and saveth me !