EBOOK TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS ***
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Twas the Night Before Christmas
A Visit from St. Nicholas
By Clement C. Moore
[Illustration]
With Pictures by Jessie Willcox Smith
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston
Copyright (c) 1912 by Houghton Mifflin Company
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INTRODUCTION
Amid the many celebrations last Christmas Eve, in various places by
different persons, there was one, in New York City, not like any other
anywhere. A company of men, women, and children went together just after
the evening service in their church, and, standing around the tomb of
the author of "A Visit from St. Nicholas," recited together the words of
the poem which we all know so well and love so dearly.
Dr. Clement C. Moore, who wrote the poem, never expected that he would
be remembered by it. If he expected to be famous at all as a writer, he
thought it would be because of the Hebrew Dictionary that he wrote.
He was born in a house near Chelsea Square, New York City, in 1781; and
he lived there all his life.
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