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THE CHRISTMAS SAINT by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS

First Line: NOT NICHOLAS, WITH BULGING PACK
Last Line: BRINGER OF CHRIST, ST. CHRISTOPHER!
Subject(s): CHRISTOPHER, CHRISTOPER (3D CENTURY);
Not Nicholas, with bulging pack
Upon his broad and kindly back;

Not Santa by the chimney side,
The eager stockings satisfied;

Not Kriss, the judge of bad and good
In all the merry neighborhood;

Not these, in spite of all men say,
Shall rule as saint our Christmas day;

But he who bore, as poets dream,
The Christ across a raging stream,

He shall our Christmas gifts confer;
Bringer of Christ, St. Christopher!



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