homestalled

Updated: June 11, 2025

A chopped missionary or two may keep up the thin idea of Lent and the wilderness; but what standing evidence have you of the Nativity? 'Tis our rosy-cheeked, homestalled divines, whose faces shine to the tune of unto us a child was born, faces fragrant with the mince-pies of half a century, that alone can authenticate the cheerful mystery.

Charles Lamb - The Best Letters of Charles Lamb