“So feast your eyes nowOn mimic star and moon-cold bauble:Worlds may wither unseen,But the Christmas Tree is a tree of fable,A phoenix in evergreen”Cecil Day Lewis The Christmas Tree (1953)
“Put out the lights now!Look at the Tree, the rough tree dazzledIn oriole plumes of flame,Tinselled with twinkling frost fire, tasselledWith stars and moons”Cecil Day Lewis The Christmas Tree (1953)
“Do not expect again the phoenix hour,The triple-towered sky, the dove's complaining,Sudden the rain of gold and heart's first easeTraced under trees by the eldritch light of sundown.”Cecil Day Lewis From Feathers to Iron (1935)