This particular line always gives me warm fuzzies. Granted, I heard this poem first in a cartoon format, but the cartoon images that now pop into my head when I read this always make me smile.
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,
With a little old driver, so lively and quick
I was exposed to this -after- seeing the Rudolph cartoon, and remember thinking that it was a huge difference from the larger reindeers in that cartoon!
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night."