Rudyard Kipling Quote

Call a truce, then, to our labours let us feast with friends and neighbours,
And be merry as the custom of our caste;
For if faint and forced the laughter, and if sadness follow after,
We are richer by one mocking Christmas past.

Christmas in India, Stanza 5. - Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886)

Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads/Christmas in India