Santaic Verses

See! Red-capped and scourging
The heathen defiler
At his frenzied urging
The reindeer leap clear

Bring in the new year
Throw out the old
He is like Kronos
Lord of the cold

With merciless blackness
His eyes gaze out shrewd
Enduring no slackness
Or thinking ungood

Chastise the children
Reward the good
Unthinking offspring
With games and food

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I have always loved the Anglo-Saxon poetic heritage. It is also, because well-loved, a good target for parody.