From “Marmion,” Introduction to Canto VI.

HEAP on more wood!—the wind is chill;
But, let it whistle as it will,
We ’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer:
Even, heathen yet, the savage Dane
At Iol more deep the mead did drain;
High on the beach his galleys drew,...