Hallow'd Season

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Hallow’d Season (:32)

by William Shakespeare

performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode

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 dares 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 I, Scene 1