there's a

beautiful

story, so i've been

told,

very sweet, and tender,

and true, and old,

about a star,

and the wonderful birth,

long ago, of a christ-child

on the earth;

and now, every year

at a certain time

the bells everywhere

ring out their chime,

and children gather

from near and from far,

to sing of that wonderful

child, and the star.