It's Christmas and a holiday Once in a December For what happy this holiday Excepting Christmas alone For all the shadows retreat The giant oaks-old as fossils-shed their leaves In merry Christmas-yet a holiday alone If death defied resurrected I’ve greeted merry Christmas And gotten uncomfortable with the notion That every Scrooge’s of my view It’s Christmas and a holiday The end , the beginning-of another Hope , rebirth Death defied resurrected.