The Night Before Christmas

[Seliphra]

When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky,

[rugrat0ne]

So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,

[Seliphra]

With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

[rugrat0ne]

And then in a twinkling I heard on the roof,

[Seliphra]

The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.

[rugrat0ne]

As I drew in my head, and was turning around,

[Seliphra]

Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.

[rugrat0ne]

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,

[Seliphra]

And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;

[rugrat0ne]

A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,

[Seliphra]

And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.

[rugrat0ne]

His eyes, how they twinkled! His dimples, how merry!

[Seliphra]

His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!

[rugrat0ne]

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow

[Seliphra]

And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow;

[rugrat0ne]

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,

[Seliphra]

And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath;

[rugrat0ne]

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,

[Seliphra]

I think you missed a couple lines there....

He had a broad face and a little round belly,

That shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly.

come first...don't they?

[rugrat0ne]

D'oh, you're right. I always mess up in this part of the poem.

[Seliphra]

ANd then your line comes and to continue:

And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;

[rugrat0ne]

A wink of his eye, and a twist of his head,

[Seliphra]

Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;

[rugrat0ne]

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,

[Seliphra]

And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,