Be merry all, be merry all, With holly dress the festive hall; Prepare the song, the feast, the ball, To welcome merry Christmas.

In these lines Spencer adopts the voice of a communal caller-to-celebration, urging collective cheer (“Be merry all”) and the traditional preparations that turn a season into a shared ritual: decorating with holly, gathering for music, food, and dancing. The catalogue of activities moves from setting the space (“dress the festive hall”) to creating sound (“Prepare the song”) to embodied sociability (“the feast, the ball”), suggesting that Christmas is welcomed not merely as a date but as an atmosphere made by people together. The repetition and regular rhyme give the stanza a carol-like momentum, reinforcing the idea of Christmas as a recurring, participatory festival.