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“Christmas Comes but Once a Year”
(As Austin Dobson might rondeau it, “To a Poet
Bewailing the Paucity of Christmas.”)
“Christmas comes but once a year?”
Be it so! Why interfere?
Melt but once the silver snows,
Blossoms only once the rose—
Does it make the rose less dear?
Be it so! Why interfere?
Melt but once the silver snows,
Blossoms only once the rose—
Does it make the rose less dear?
Nay, my silly sonneteer,
Other days may disappear,
New Year’s leaves and May-day goes—
Christmas comes!
Other days may disappear,
New Year’s leaves and May-day goes—
Christmas comes!
Draws the day of Noël near,
Light the log and mix the cheer!
Vanish, Care! and perish Prose!
’Tis the season of rondeaux
Intricately Gallic. . . . Here
Christmas comes!
Light the log and mix the cheer!
Vanish, Care! and perish Prose!
’Tis the season of rondeaux
Intricately Gallic. . . . Here
Christmas comes!
(Being an attempt to parody an eminent young
librettist, author, manager and actor.)
Now, everybody knows that I’m a patriotic guy—
(By the dawn’s early light)
My birthday and the country’s is the 4th day of July.
(Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! The boys are marching.)
(By the dawn’s early light)
My birthday and the country’s is the 4th day of July.
(Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! The boys are marching.)
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