The grate had been removed from the wide overwhelming fireplace, to make way for a fire of wood, in the midst of which was an enormous log glowing and blazing, and sending forth a vast volume of light and heat; this I understood was the Yule-log, which the Squire was particular in having brought in and illumined on a Christmas eve, according to ancient custom.
Washington Irving
(who visited and celebrated bucolic West Hampstead)
(who visited and celebrated bucolic West Hampstead)
A Very Merry Christmas
to You All!
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| Photo by EP |
Postscript
You might like to revisit, or indeed see for the first time, Edward’s beautifully moving performance of Dickens’s Doctor Marigold, written as a Christmas story in 1865 and here presented at Stratford’s Other Place in 1999.
KR
Thank you. That is a beautiful and evocative film; and a moving reading of Eliot's poem.
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