[Illustration: THE HOLY FAMILY.]




ST. NICHOLAS.

VOL. V.
DECEMBER, 1877.
No. 2.


[Copyright, 1877, by Scribner & Co.]




THE THREE KINGS.

BY HENRY W. LONGFELLOW.


Three Kings came riding from far away,
Melchior and Gaspar and Baltazar;
Three Wise Men out of the East were they,
And they traveled by night and they slept by day,
For their guide was a beautiful, wonderful star.

The star was so beautiful, large and clear,
That all the other stars of the sky