"So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing, / To drive the dark away ..."

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Source : Susan Cooper (2011). “The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff, Creator of the Christmas Revels”, p.182, Candlewick Press

Susan Cooper

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