What a wonderful set of pictures to illustrate the poem Christmas by John Betjeman
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Retweeted by The CCTHappy Christmas everyone. For our final #
DigitalAdventCalendar door, we look back at one of our best- loved Christmā¦
https://t.co/K5JjCDbkuYNo love that in a family dwells,
No carolling in frosty air,
Nor all the steeple-shaking bells
Can with thiā¦
https://t.co/Rya2TK3BPUAnd is it true? For if it is,
No loving fingers tying strings
Around those tissued fripperies,
The sweet anā¦
https://t.co/PWGTfOGzIuAnd is it true? And is it true,
This most tremendous tale of all,
Seen in a stained-glass window's hue,
A Bā¦
https://t.co/ThXVQrB3RLAnd girls in slacks remember Dad,
And oafish louts remember Mum,
And sleepless children's hearts are glad.ā¦
https://t.co/o96hKlXxEjAnd London shops on Christmas Eve
Are strung with silver bells and flowers
As hurrying clerks the City leaveā¦
https://t.co/dvLkacTYTBProvincial Public Houses blaze
And Corporation tramcars clang,
On lighted tenements I gaze
Where paper decoā¦
https://t.co/ZGlEbez4wpThe holly in the windy hedge
And round the Manor House the yew
Will soon be stripped to deck the ledge,
Theā¦
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Christmas by John #
Betjeman (1954)
The bells of waiting Advent ring,
The Tortoise stove is lit again
And lamp-ā¦
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