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Christmas carols express better than anythin* else, hrohehlft* true spirit of Christmas. .
The word “carol” itself signifies joy and was originally used to accompany a dance. William Wallace Fyfe concludes that the tenn carol “signifies a song of joy or exultation.” Another definition states: “A carol is a hymn of praise especially such as is sung at Christmas in the open air.”
In England, which gave America most of its carols, they were sometimes gay and sometimes convivial until the time of the Puritans, who tried to suppress the Christmas spirit.
After the Restoration, the religious nature of the day was for a time almost forgot in the reaction from Puritanism, and the carol was temporarily lost in the songs.
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