Peace is a fiction of our Faith－1
The Bells a Winter Night
Bearing the Neighbor out of Sound
That never did alight.
The Bells a Winter Night
Bearing the Neighbor out of Sound
That never did alight.
(F.971/J.912)
[1] Peace: a peaceful and Winter Night, the Christmas Eve.
[2] Bells: the cry of a stag or buck at rutting time (OED n.4); a hint on Santa Claus' reindeer.
[3] Bearing: pressing, affecting. out of Sound: via the sound of reindeer; unhealthy.
[4] alight: to descend and settle; to lighten, alleviate.
Dickinson in her letter (794) wrote: The Fiction of "Santa Claus" always reminds me of the reply to my early question of "Who made the Bible."
Wherever Santa Claus lives, and in whatever spot of the Universe he harnesses his reindeer and loads up his sleigh . . . poor children has but little of his care.——Oldham's Amusing and Instructive Reader (1854)
