When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow,
We hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago,
And etched on vacant places
Are half forgotten faces
Of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know ...
When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow.
by Emma Wheeler Wilcox
http://womenshistory.about.com/etext/whx/bl_christmas_wilcox.htm
( I photographed the lovely old toys at the City Museum, Weimar, Germany.)
