Blog Post 52, 2019 to post Dec. 23, 2019

It is also referred to as “A Visit From St. Nicholas” or “The Night Before Christmas.”

Below are the original lyrics to the poem (see how the poem looked in the Troy Sentinel here):

1 ‘Twas the night before Christmas, and the drafts were complete) (Not a comma was missing, not even a one)
2 The office was quiet, the staff had gone home

3. The filing was all finished, the drawers were all closed.
   3 The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
4. In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
5. In hopes no arrests would be near

5 The children were nestled all snug in their beds,

5. The attorneys were home on their smart phones
   6 While visions of sugar plums danc’d in their heads,
6. While visions TRO’s danced in their heads

7 And Mama in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,

7. With me still in my suit and the kids all tucked in
   8 Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap-
8. I had just settled in to long brief writing session

9 When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,

• When the Nest Doorbell alarm broke my concentration
• I sprang from my desk to see what was the matter.
• 10 I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
• looking up from stack thru the blinds I saw like a flash
• 11 Away to the window I flew like a flash,
• Pulled open the blind and peered to thru the glass
• 12 Tore open the shutters, and threw up the sash.
• The Street was a dust with the glisten of snow
•  The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow,
• Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below;
• When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
• But a minature sleigh, and eight tiny rein-deer,
  With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
  I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
  More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
  And he whistled, and shouted, and call’d them by name:
  “Now! Dasher, now! Dancer, now! Prancer, and Vixen,
  “On! Comet, on! Cupid, on! Dunder and Blixem;
  “To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
  “Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!”
  As dry leaves before the wild hurricane fly,
  When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky;
  So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
  With the sleigh full of Toys – and St. Nicholas too:
  And then in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
  The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
  As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
  Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound:
  He was dress’d all in fur, from his head to his foot,
  And his clothes were all tarnish’d with ashes and soot;
  A bundle of toys was flung on his back,
  And he look’d like a peddler just opening his pack:
  His eyes – how they twinkled! his dimples how merry,
  His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry;
  His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
  And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow;
  The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
  And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
  He had a broad face, and a little round belly
  That shook when he laugh’d, like a bowl full of jelly:
  He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
  And I laugh’d when I saw him in spite of myself;
  A wink of his eye and a twist of his head
  Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.
  He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
  And fill’d all the stockings; then turn’d with a jerk,
  And laying his finger aside of his nose
  And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.
  He sprung to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
  And away they all flew, like the down of a thistle:
  But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight-
  Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night.

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