![]() ![]() Then it was translated into German, French, and many other languages. Later it was printed by itself, with pictures. Then a magazine printed it, and after a time it was printed in the school readers. Afterward, they learned it, and sometimes recited it, just as other children learn it and recite it now. ![]() They read it just after they had hung up their stockings before one of the big fireplaces in their house. One year he wrote this poem, which we usually call "'Twas the Night before Christmas," to give to his children for a Christmas present. He liked writing poetry for them even more than he liked writing a Hebrew Dictionary. It was a great big house, with fireplaces in it -just the house to be living in on Christmas Eve. He was born in a house near Chelsea Square, New York City, in 1781 and he lived there all his life. ![]() If he expected to be famous at all as a writer, he thought it would be because of the Hebrew Dictionary that he wrote. Moore, who wrote the poem, never expected that he would be remembered by it. Nicholas," recited together the words of the poem which we all know so well and love so dearly. A company of men, women, and children went together just after the evening service in their church, and, standing around the tomb of the author of "A Visit from St. Amid the many celebrations last Christmas Eve, in various places by different persons, there was one, in New York City, not like any other anywhere. ![]()
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