Wild Bells

 By Maryanna Gabriel

Ring Out Wild Bells
                                                                                Ring out wild bells to the wild sky

The flying cloud, the frosty light

The year is dying in the night.

Ring out wild bells and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new

Ring happy bells across the snow

The year is going,

Let him go.

Ring out the false,

Ring in the true.

                     -Alfred Lord Tennyson

Christmas Into This House

 By Maryanna Gabriel

Christmas Life
    by Wendy Cope

Bring in a tree, a young Norwegian Spruce
Bring hyacinths that rooted in cold
Bring winter jasmine as it's buds unfold
Bring Christmas life into this house

Bring red and green and gold
Bring things that shine
Bring candlesticks, music, food, and wine,
Bring in your memories of Christmas past
Bring in your memories of all you've lost

Bring in the shepherd boy
The ox, the ass
Bring in the stillness of an icy night
Bring in the birth of hope, and love, and light,
Bring Christmas life into this house