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December 23December 23 is the 356th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 9 days remaining, 10 in leap years.
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December 22 - December 24 - November 23 - January 23 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July,
August, September, October, November, December
I can read her gentle hope--
(She was always uncomplaining),
Through the little envelope!
At A Pantomime. By A Bilious One
An actor.html">Actor sits in doubtful gloom,
In a damp funereal dressing-room
And braves its icy breath.html">breath,
Harlequin Life and death.html">Death.
A hoary flowing wig his weird
He hangs a long benevolent beard
The actor's art he cribs,--
Bedecks his rattling ribs.
He cries, "Go on--begin, begin!
I'm dressed for jolly Old Christmas, in
Time and the year nigh sped--
The Old Year nearly dead.
The wand of Time is waved, and lo!
And little children chuckle and crow,
At the death of the Olden Year,
And bids the world good cheer.
The little ones hail the festive King,--
Their laughter comes with a sounding ring,
A holiday every year,
And unaccustomed cheer.
The old ones, palsied, blear, and hoar,
They've/ve.html">ve/ve.html">ve seen him seventy times before,
They've felt its blighting breath,
Meant Cold and Want and Death,--
Starvation--Poor Law Union fare--
And illness--illness everywhere,
Those men of ripened age;
That Actor off the stage!
They see.html">see.html">see in his gay rotundity
They see in the cup he waves on high
They've seen it all before,
But twice or three times more.
And so they bear with dance and song,
They wearily sit, and grimly long
Was a man-eating African swell;
His whisper a horrible yell--
To BORRIA doubled the knee,
But he'd eaten the balance, you see
There was lumbering DOODLE-DUM-DEY,
And good little TOOTLE-TUM-TEH--
For they hadn't a morsel of meat,
Was dying for something to eat--
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