This poem is accompanied by a painting call "A Meeting in the Snow" by Frederick Marianus Kruseman... a depths of winter countryside scene, set next to a frozen stream with a stone, manor house in the distance...the whole town is out, gathering twigs, playing with the dogs and skating on the stream.

'Christmas is come and every hearth
Makes room to give him welcome now
Een want will dry it tears in mirth
And crown him wi a holly bough
Tho tramping neath a winters sky
Oer snow track paths and ryhmey stiles
The huswife sets her spining bye
And bids him welcome wi her smiles'

'Neighbours resume their anual cheer
Wishing wi smiles and spirits high
Glad christmass and a happy year
To every morning passer bye
Milk maids their christmass journeys go
Accompanyd wi favourd swain
And childern pace the crumping snow
To taste their grannys cake again.'