So hallow'd and so gracious is the time

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• Blow, blow, thou winter wind
• Daisies
• Fairies' Song
• The horn, the horn, the lusty horn
• Icicles
• Music to hear
• Take, O take those lips away
• This sceptr'd isle

Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long;
And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad,
The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike,
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.

(Marcellus, in Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 2)