Poems in 3 Vols - 4 Author:Eliza Cook Volume: 4 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1853 Original Publisher: Simpkin, Marshall Subjects: History / General Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the Ge... more »neral Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: UNDER THE MISTLETOE. CHRISTMAS SONG. Under the mistletoe, pearly and green, Meet the kind lips of the young and the old ; Under the mistletoe hearts may be seen Glowing as though they had never been cold. Under the mistletoe, peace and good will Mingle the spirits that long have been twain ; Leaves of the olive-branch twine with it still, While breathings of Hope fill the loud carol strain. Yet why should this holy and festival mirth In the reign of Old Christmas-tide only be found ? Hang up Love's mistletoe over the earth, And let us kiss under it all the year round ! Hang up the mistletoe over the land Where the poor dark man is spurned by the white; Hang it wherever Oppression's strong hand Wrings from the Helpless Humanity's right. Hang it on high where the starving lip sobs, And the patrician one turneth in scorn; Let it be met where the purple steel robs Child of its father and field of its corn ; Hail it with joy in our yule-lighted mirth, But let it not fade with the festival sound; Hang up Love's mistletoe over the earth, And let us kiss under it all the year round ! A PATHETIC LAMENT. " Here's a state of things! the company come that we didn't expect till next week, and master gone nobody knows where." -- Domestic Aside Of A " Pretty Page." The lost " gude man," the lost " gude man !" Oh ! the width of our anguish who could span, When we stood at the gate in pilgrim state, Bemoaning our lonely and dinnerless state ? The castle was nigh, ...« less