1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:05,719 Twas the night before Christmas a visit from Saint Nicholas by Clemencymour. Twas the 2 00:00:05,799 --> 00:00:09,679 night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, 3 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:13,880 not even a mouse. The stockings were won by the chimney with care, 4 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:18,960 in hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled, 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:23,800 all snug in their beds, while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads. 6 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,519 And Mamma in her kerchief and I in my cap, had just settled 7 00:00:27,519 --> 00:00:32,000 our brains for a long winter's nap, when out on the lawn there arose 8 00:00:32,119 --> 00:00:35,560 such a clatter. I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter. 9 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:39,719 Away to the window, I flew like a flash door, opened the 10 00:00:39,759 --> 00:00:43,759 shutters, and threw up the sash. The moon on the breast of the 11 00:00:43,759 --> 00:00:48,840 new fallen snow gave the luster of mid day to objects below. When what 12 00:00:49,039 --> 00:00:55,359 to my wandering eyes should appear but a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer with 13 00:00:55,399 --> 00:00:59,280 a little old driver. So lively and quick I knew in a moment it 14 00:00:59,479 --> 00:01:03,679 must be Saint Nick. More rapid than eagles, his coursers. They came, 15 00:01:03,759 --> 00:01:07,040 and he whistled and shouted and called them by name, Now Dasher, 16 00:01:07,159 --> 00:01:11,359 now Dancer, now Brancer, and Vixen, on Comet, on, Cupid, 17 00:01:11,359 --> 00:01:15,840 on Dander, and Blitzen. To the top of the porch, to 18 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:19,000 the top of the wall. Now dash away, dash away, dash away, 19 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:25,120 all as dry leaf that before the wild hurricane fly. When they meet 20 00:01:25,159 --> 00:01:27,599 with an obstacle, mount to the sky, so up to the house, 21 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:33,239 top the courses they flew with a sleigh full of toys, and Saint Nicholas 22 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:38,079 do, And then a twinkling I heard on the roof, the brancing and 23 00:01:38,159 --> 00:01:42,079 bawing of each little hoof. As I drew in my head and was turning 24 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:48,120 round down the chimney, Saint Nicholas came with a bound. He was dressed 25 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,599 all in fur from his head to his foot, and his clothes were all 26 00:01:51,719 --> 00:01:56,120 tarnished with ashes and soot. A bundle of toys he had flung on his 27 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:00,280 back, and he looked like a peddler just opening his pack. His eyes, 28 00:02:00,319 --> 00:02:04,640 how they twinkled, his dimples, how merry, his cheeks were like 29 00:02:04,799 --> 00:02:08,280 roses, his nose like a cherry. His droll little mouth was drawn up 30 00:02:08,319 --> 00:02:12,639 like a bow, and the beard of his chin was as white as the 31 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,439 snow, the stump of a pipe pield tight in his teeth, and the 32 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:22,240 smoke it encircled his head like a wreath. He had a broad face and 33 00:02:22,319 --> 00:02:25,240 a little round belly that shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of 34 00:02:25,319 --> 00:02:30,560 jelly. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf. And 35 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:34,759 I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself. A wink of his 36 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,000 eye and a twist of his head soon gave me to know I had nothing 37 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:43,360 to dread. He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work 38 00:02:43,479 --> 00:02:46,479 and filled all the stockings. Then turned with a jerk, and laying his 39 00:02:46,599 --> 00:02:52,039 finger aside of his nose, and giving a nod up the chimney, he 40 00:02:52,159 --> 00:02:55,280 rose. He sprang to his sleigh, to his team, gave a whistle, 41 00:02:55,400 --> 00:03:00,240 and away they all flew like the down of a thistle. But I 42 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:06,159 heard him exclaim ere he drove out of sight, Happy Christmas to all, 43 00:03:06,199 --> 00:03:12,639 and to all a good night, And of twas the night before Christmas.