A Visit From Saint Nick Revisited, Stanzas I and II: "The Eve" and "The Stockings"

   I 

  'Twas the 
eve before 

Xmas Eve.
'Round my a-

bode, feelings --

spite, greed, im-

patience -- ran

high...and it

show'd.

 

   II 

   Stockings -- 

dozens -- were 

flung 'round the 

hearth without 

care. (I'd hoped  

Santa would 

leave me wa-a-ay 

more than my 

share.)