Christmas Elves
Reading edition
If you walk on Christmas eve, And the moon doth shine aright, You will see them weave,— Nimble gnome, and fay and sprite,— Devious dances in the lustrous lunar light. Round and round the holly bole Will they dart and glide and spring; And a tripping troll Will they in a chorus sing; Threading now in broken, now in linkèd ring. Berry bright, berry bright, Be the love about your hearth! Leafy green, leafy green, Be perennial your mirth! Sturdy as a holly bole be your footing of the earth! These white spirits of old Yule, Happy you who hear their tune! Joy with you shall rule, Life for you shall be a boon Round the year through all the watches of the moon!