The First Christmas Tree

By Henry Van Dyke

Book Overview

" ...]had long since disappeared, bleached away by the storms and the cold. But to-night these tattered remnants of glory were red again: ancient bloodstains against the dark-blue sky. For an immense fire had been kindled in front of the tree. Tongues of ruddy flame, fountains of ruby sparks, ascended through the spreading limbs and flung a fierce illumination upward and around. ward and around. The pale, pure moonlight that bathed the surrounding forests was quenched and eclipsed here. Not a beam of it sifted down-ward through the branches of the oak. It stood like a pillar of cloud between the still light of heaven and the crackling, flashing fire of earth. ...]."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1522832343
• ISBN13: 9781522832348
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 38 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"