"Hark! 'tis the elves"

Jessie Macgregor (1847-1919)

1900

Pencil

Source: Macgregor

Christopher wakes up on Christmas Eve, still caught up in his dream world, to the sound of "wondrous music, sweet and strange" (stanza 12). Macgregor is very good at conveying the child's different moods and expressions: here, he listens raptly, completely beguiled by the sound.

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