Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.

Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts: and no one to thank

Spring bursts to-day, For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play.

And with the morn those angel faces smile/ Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile.

Love came down at Christmas; love all lovely, love divine; love was born at Christmas, stars and angels gave the sign.