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"'T was the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring,--not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there."
Clement C. Moore / A Visit from St. Nicholas.
A Visit from St. Nicholas.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain