A Victorian Christmas Advent Calendar: 5th December
“The earth, in colours brown and gray,
Seems to forget to lure the sunbeam’s ray,
And bathed in shadow, loves the shrouding mist,
That cometh silently, and having kissed
The hill-crest, and the valley, fades from sight.”
From ‘Christmas Joy and Peace’ by Dora Ross (classmark 1897.7.676)