Luyện nghe bài hát The Night Before Christmas

'Twas the before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a was stirring, not even a mouse
The stockings were by the chimney with care
In hopes that St. Nicholas would be there
The children were nestled, all in their beds
While visions of sugar-plums in their heads
And in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap
Had just settled our brains for a winter's nap

When out on the lawn there arose a clatter
I sprang from the bed to see was the matter
Away to the window I flew like a
Tore open the shutters and threw up the

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen
the lustre of mid-day to objects below
When, what to my wondering should appear
But a sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer

With a old driver, so lively and quick
I knew in a it must be St. Nick
More than eagles his coursers they came
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by

"Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, and Vixen!
On, Comet! on Cupid! on, and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! away! dash away all!"

As dry leaves that before the hurricane fly
When they meet an obstacle, mount to the sky
So up to the house-top the coursers they
With the full of toys, and St. Nicholas too

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the
The and pawing of each little hoof
As I drew in my hand, and was around
Down the chimney St. came with a bound

He was dressed all in fur, his head to his foot
And his clothes were all with ashes and soot
A bundle of he had flung on his back
And he like a peddler just opening his pack

His eyes, how twinkled! his dimples, how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his like a cherry!
His droll mouth was drawn up like a bow
And the beard of his chin was as as the snow

The stump of a he held tight in his teeth
And the smoke, it encircled his head a wreath
He had a broad and a little round belly
That shook, when he like a bowlful of jelly

He was chubby and plump, a right old elf
And I laughed I saw him, in spite of myself
A wink of his eye and a twist of his
Soon gave me to know I had to dread

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his
And filled all the stockings, turned with a jerk
And laying his aside of his nose
And a nod, up the chimney he rose

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a
And away they all flew like the down of a
But I him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight
"Happy to all, and to all a good-night"