It is the son of the brave knight Noël, Cut off, alas!

For his dear eyes, so true, so fathomless, So full of tenderness, his mother thought They were the reflex of the steadfast love She bore her lord Noël?

The Noël-garde retainers, come to greet The noble boy, and say a long farewell.

" When the gray morning dawned at Noël-garde, The Lady Agathar went to her son; It was the last good-morrow they would say For many years to come.

At the sun's rise He was to leave his home, to take his way To the brave knight Sir Kathanal, to whom Sir Noël, dying, had bade Agathar Send the young Christalan, in time, to learn The code of chivalry and knighthood.

They talked together of that day, gone by, When Christalan first left them They had heard How nobly, to the pride of Noël-garde, He bore his days of service, how, as squire, He was the favoured of Sir Kathanal, How keen and living his ambition was To prove the motto of his boyish choice

They told her how he whiter grew, at this, And, with the one word, "Noël-garde," had passed Into the trance, like death, that held him thus Through all the journey they had carried him.

A brighter day now dawned for Noël-garde With his home-coming, notwithstanding grief.

" "Well," said fair Greane, with laughter in her eyes, "I straight will die for the next noble knight Who comes to Noël-garde to rest awhile, And you shall put me on a gilded barge, I will not have a solemn bed of black!

"When I saw him first, He asked, 'Are you Sir Noël's sonthe knight

One morning, when the sun rose, he was far From Noël-garde.

"In the time of the great King Francis I.," says Noël du Fail, in his "Contes d'Eutrapel," "in many places the saucepan was put on to the table, on which there was only one other large dish, of beef, mutton, veal, and bacon, garnished with a large bunch of cooked herbs, the whole of which mixture composed a porridge, and a real restorer and elixir of life.

Souper de noël.

(In L'Illustration, noël)

R58447, 7Feb50, Edna St. Vincent Millay (A) SOUPER DE NOËL, comédie lyrique en 1 acte et 2 tableaux.

SEE Souper de noël.

© 6Dec33; A68488. Noël Coward (A); 7Dec60; R267612. <pb id='259.png' n='1960h2/A/1765' />

The preface to a Noël Coward cavalcade.

Noël Coward (A); 29Nov60; R266970. COWLEY, MARGARET C. Feather

Souper de noël.

(In L'Illustration, noël)

R58447, 7Feb50, Edna St. Vincent Millay (A) SOUPER DE NOËL, comédie lyrique en 1 acte et 2 tableaux.

SEE Souper de noël.

SEE Vindry, Noël.

VINDRY, NOËL.