THE BEGGARS HOME Twas Christmas Eve And All The Streets Were Thronged With Passers To And Fro And Everyone Looked Bright And Glad Except A Little Beggar Lad, Who Had No Home Where He Could Go He Heard, With Tear Drops On His Cheeks The Merry Sound Of Children's Glee; And Drawing From The Crowd Apart, A Cry Of Sorrow Filled His Heart- "They All Have Got A Home But Me!, But When The Tide Of Human Life Along The Pavement Ceased To Sweep, With Naught To Rest On But A Stone. Hungry And Homeless- All Alone, The Little Outcast Fell Asleep. The Christmas Bells Rang Out With Peals To Show The Christmas Dawn Had Come; And While They Hailed A Saviour's Birth, The Saviour Jesus Stooped To Earth, And Took The Weary Beggar Home. Wexford Newspaper 1836