Gray Old Gardener, What Do You Bring? "Laurel And Ivy And Bay, With Palms For The Crowning Of A King - The Morrow Is Christmas Day. "Holly With Thorns, And Berries Like Blood On Its Shiny Greenness Flung. O The Pierc'D Side, And The Thorny Crown, And The Cross Whereon He Hung! "The Mistletoe, Meaning All-Healing, Hangs Close To The Holly'S Thorn, Lest We Forget That On Christmas Day The Healer Of Souls Was Born. "Ivy'S For Faith; On The Altar Rail Let It Creep Where All May See; It Crept Till It Kissed A Cheek So Pale That Night In Gethsemane. "Bay'S For Remembrance, Full And Sweet; It Speaks With Its Fragrant Breath Of Manger And Cross And A Lowly Tomb, And A Love That Conquered Death. "And Laurel Leaves For The Wreath I Bring, The Laurel For Victory, And Palms For The Crowning Of A King - The Morrow Is Christmas Day."