'Twas The Nighttime Earlier Christmas...

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Visit from St. Nicholas

BY CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE

'Twas the nighttime earlier Christmas, when all through the house

Not a animate existence was stirring, non fifty-fifty a mouse;

The stockings were hung past times the chimney amongst care,

In hopes that St. Nicholas before long would live on there;

The children were nestled all snug inwards their beds;

While visions of sugar-plums danced inwards their heads;

And mamma inwards her 'kerchief, in addition to I inwards my cap,

Had but settled our brains for a long winter's nap,

When out on the lawn in that place arose such a clatter,

I sprang from my bed to consider what was the matter.

Away to the window I flew similar a flash,

Tore opened upwards the shutters in addition to threw upwards the sash.

The Luna on the pectus of the new-fallen snow,

Gave a lustre of midday to objects below,

When what to my wondering eyes did appear,

But a miniature sleigh in addition to 8 tiny rein-deer,

With a piffling quondam driver thence lively in addition to quick,

I knew inwards a minute he must live on St. Nick.

More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,

And he whistled, in addition to shouted, in addition to called them past times name:

"Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now Prancer and Vixen!

On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donner and Blitzen!

To the move past times of the porch! to the move past times of the wall!

Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"

As leaves that earlier the wild hurricane fly,

When they run across amongst an obstacle, mountain to the sky;

So upwards to the housetop the coursers they flew

With the sleigh amount of toys, in addition to St. Nicholas too—

And then, inwards a twinkling, I heard on the roof

The prancing in addition to pawing of each piffling hoof.

As I drew inwards my head, in addition to was turning around,

Down the chimney St. Nicholas came amongst a bound.

He was dressed all inwards fur, from his caput to his foot,

And his clothes were all tarnished amongst ashes in addition to soot;

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 package of toys he had flung on his back,

And he looked similar a pedler but opening his pack.

His eyes—how they twinkled! his dimples, how merry!

His cheeks were similar roses, his olfactory organ similar a cherry!

His droll piffling oral cavity was drawn upwards similar a bow,

And the beard on his mentum was every bit white every bit the snow;

The stump of a pipage he held tight inwards his teeth,

And the smoke, it encircled his caput similar a wreath;

He had a wide human face upwards in addition to a piffling circular belly

That shook when he laughed, similar a bowl amount of jelly.

He was chubby in addition to plump, a correct jolly quondam elf,

And I laughed when I saw him, inwards spite of myself;

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 wink of his oculus in addition to a twist of his head

Soon gave me to know I had nil to dread;

He spoke non a word, but went immediately to his work,

And filled all the stockings; thence turned amongst a jerk,

And laying his finger aside of his nose,

And giving a nod, upwards the chimney he rose;

He sprang to his sleigh, to his squad gave a whistle,

And away they all flew similar the downward of a thistle.

But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight—

“Happy Christmas to all, in addition to to all a skillful night!”