Deep inside this Christmas Eve   Watching as the hours leave   Gently drifting in the air   Shadows of an angel's share     Christmas lights   On Christmas nights   With peace for every nation   Stable scenes   And evergreens   With snow still glistening     Angels grace   This humble place   With hopes of our salvation   Christmas cards   And snow filled yards   And children wondering     Rejoice   All awaken   Rejoice   Quickly hasten   Rejoice   For the newborn king     Rejoice   For the vision   Rejoice   He has given   Hear the choirs as they sing     Scrooge returns   To once more learn   That Christmas ghosts conspire     To redeem   His soul it seems   But still he hesitates     To believe   He's not deceived   Until this night inspires   Him to find   That at this time   It never is too late     Rejoice   All awaken   Rejoice   Quickly hasten   Rejoice   For the newborn king     Rejoice   For the vision   Rejoice   He has given   Hear the choirs as they sing   And sing   And sing   And sing and sing and sing     Winter dreams   Her endless scenes   In endless combinations   To embrace   This world of faith   This world that we now see     Every year   It returns here   With all its variations   And as the day     It fades away   And we once more find that...     Once again the promise kept   One by one the angels slept   So we leave this night in peace   And the world in gentle sleep     WHEN SHE FINISHED THAT LAST LETTER   FROM THAT LITTLE STACK   SHE PUT EACH ONE IT ITS ENVELOPE   AND CAREFULLY PUT THEM BACK     THEN SHE SAT AND THOUGHT QUITE CAREFULLY   ABOUT ALL SHE HAD LEARNED   REALIZING THAT HER BELIEF IN THIS NIGHT   HAD COMPLETELY RETURNED     FOR IF ALL THESE GROWNUPS SHE HAD READ   HAD IN THIS NIGHT BELIEVED   IF COULD NOT BE POSSIBLE   THAT THEY ALL HAD BEEN DECEIVED     AND SHE MARVELED HOT THOUGH EVERY LETTER   WAS SIGNED WITH A DIFFERENT NAME   THAT IN THE END IT SEEMED THAT ALL   THEIR WISHES WERE THE SAME     THAT THE LIGHT THAT REACHED OUR LIVES   FROM THAT DISTANT CHRISTMAS STAR   WOULD MAKE US, IF NOT PERFECT   THEN PERHAPS BETTER THAN WHO WE ARE     AND SUDDENLY SHE NOTICED   THAT THERE WAS A PRESENT THERE   HE MUST HAVE COME AND LEFT IT   WHEN SHE HAD GONE DOWN THE STAIRS     THEN SHE REALIZED AS FOR THAT CHIMNEY   SHE NEEDN'T HAVE WORRIED AFTER ALL   FOR CHRISTMAS SHE HAD FOUNG THIS NIGHT   COULD NOT BE STOPPED BY WALLS     COULD NOT BE STOPPED BY DISTANCE   COULD NOT BE STOPPED BY TIME   AND IF ONE LIVED A THOUSAND YEARS   IT WOULD STILL BE THERE TO FIND     NOW SOME WILL SAY THAT ALL THESE GIFTS   WERE LEFT BY HER FATHER OR HER MOTHER   BUT I FOR ONE, WILL ALWAYS SUSPECT   IT COULD HAVE BEEN ANOTHER     AND BEFORE SHE WENT BACK DOWN THE STAIRS   WITH HER FADING CANDLELIGHT   SHE FOUND SOME PAPER AND WROTE DOWN   ALL THAT HAD OCCURED THAT NIGHT     AND SOMETIME ON SOME DISTANT NIGHT   WE REALLY CAN'T SAY WHEN   SOMEONE WILL READ THAT LETTER   AND THIS NIGHT WILL LIVE AGAIN     AND SO OUR STORY'S OVER   AND THE CHILD RETURNED TO BED   TO DREAM ABOUT THIS MAGIC NIGHT   AND WHERE IT ALL HAD LED     AND THE ANGEL WHO HAD HEARD HER THOUGHTS   ABOUT WHAT SHE LEARNED   NOW REALIZED THAT HIS WAS DONE   AND IT WAS TIME HE SHOULD RETURN     AND TAKING BACK ALL HE HAD THOUGHT   HE RETURNED JUST IN TIME   TO APPEAR BEFORE HIS LORD   AND TELL HIM WHAT HE HAD LEFT BEHIND   THERE WERE TWO SOULS REUNITED   ON A SNOW BLESSED CHRISTMAS EVE   AND SLEEPING SAFELY IN HER BED   WAS THE CHILD WHO STILL BELIEVED     AND ONCE AGAIN THE LORD SMILED DOWN   FROM HIS HEAVENLY THRONE   AND TOOK THE ANGEL INTO HIS HEART   AND WHISPERED, WELCOME HOME     AND MAY YOU ALSO HEAR THOSE WORDS   ALL THROUGH YOUR LIFE   BUT MAY YOU HEAR THEM MOST OF ALL   ON EVERY CHRISTMAS NIGHT     MERRY CHRISTMAS!     [Post Script]    AND THE MOST MAGICAL THING   ABOUT THIS NIGHT WE WILL NOW REITERATE   THAT NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE IN LIFE   IT NEVER IS TOO LATE