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taken from “Siroe,” an opera by Handel. No one knows who wrote “The First Noel." It first appea red in print in 1833 in a book [called “Christmas Carols At> cient and Modern,” and is believed to be very old. The author of “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen,” also is unknown, but he lived before Shakespeare. So if you should go caroling this Christmas season, think of other carolers of years gone by, of the people of Chailes Dickens’ time in their beavei hats and cutaway coats, of English villagers in hose and jerkin, of Good St. Francis, and of the priests of the time of the Christian Roman Empire who, before caroling as we know it existed, sang “in celebration of our Lord.
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