Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.
Rudyard KiplingCall a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
Rudyard Kipling