.......You sang to me. " Which Grateful Dead song was that ? Gerry Nostalgia.

All this talk of Christmas started to enchant me and then I remembered the cost  (" Bah...Humbug ! ").

"...Christmas cuts through it all, despite your hidden agenda. 

God bless ..."

Anyway here's a forgotten aside from Shakespeare... " Hamlet " ( Act 1 sc.i )

Marcellus:  " Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes

Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,

The bird of dawning singeth all night long:

And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad,

The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike,

No fairy takes nor witch hath power to charm,

So hallowed and so gracious is the time. "