THE FINAL SAY
Read "Beggar's Rhyme: A Blogger as Beggar" (a post in this blog).
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Beggar's Rhyme: A Blogger as Beggar
O Christmas is coming,
The geese are getting fat,
Won't you please put a penny
In a poor man's hat?
If you haven't got a penny
A ha'penny will do.
If you haven't got a ha'penny
Then God bless you!
Author Unknown
Thank you for reading this post. This blogger, this poor man, is now passing the hat among his readers. If enjoy reading this blog and would like to make a donation of $1.00 (100 pennies) or more to support my work on this blog -- and to help me pay my monthly bills -- will you please send your donation via PayPal to oldelway02@duck.com? As Proverbs 28:27 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition) says, "Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing." God bless you! I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
December: A Carol on Redemption
I have quoted the final two lines in each of the four stanzas below from "The Holly and the Ivy," a fifteenth-century English carol.
The word redeem can
Be formed from the letters of
The name December.
"And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
To be our sweet Saviour."
From the letters of
The name December can be
Formed the word redeem.
"And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
To do poor sinners good."
The word redeem can
Be formed from the letters of
The name December.
"And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
On Christmas in the morn."
From the letters of
The name December can be
Formed the word redeem.
"And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
For to redeem us all."
From the Holy Bible, King James Version
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