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A Christmas Carol For 1862 · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: A Christmas carol for eighteen sixty two. The skies are pale,
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  Speaker 1: the trees are stiff, the earth is dull and old.
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  Speaker 1: The frost is glittering, as if the very sun were cold,
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  Speaker 1: and hunger fell is joined with frost to make men
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  Speaker 1: thin and wan. Come Babe from heaven, or we are lost,
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  Speaker 1: Be born, O child of man. The children cry, the
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  Speaker 1: women shake, The strong men stare about. They sleep when
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  Speaker 1: they should be awake. They wake ere night is out,
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  Speaker 1: for they have lost their heritage. No sweat is on
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  Speaker 1: their brow. Come Babe and bring them work and wage.
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  Speaker 1: Be burn and save us. Now cross the sea thors
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  Speaker 1: on the fierce debate. The women weep and hate, And
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  Speaker 1: in the right be which that may suppose. The strife
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  Speaker 1: is long. Come, son of Man, Thy righteous way and
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  Speaker 1: right will have no wrong. Good Men speak lies against
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  Speaker 1: thine own sorrow, quick and hearing slow. They will not
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  Speaker 1: let thee walk alone, and think to serve thee. So
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  Speaker 1: if they the children's freedom saw in thee the children's king,
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  Speaker 1: they would be still with holy awe, or only speak
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  Speaker 1: to sing. Some neither lie nor starve, nor fight, nor
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  Speaker 1: yet the poor deny, but in their hearts all is
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  Speaker 1: not right. They often sit and sigh. We need THEE
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  Speaker 1: every day and hour. Control, and in snow, child King,
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  Speaker 1: we pray with all our power disparate and save us.
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  Speaker 1: So we are but men and women. Lord thou art
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  Speaker 1: a gracious child. Oh fill our hearts and heap our board.
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  Speaker 1: Pray thee. The winter's wild, the sky is sad, the
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  Speaker 1: trees are bare. Hunger and hate about come child, and
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  Speaker 1: ill deeds and ill fair Ashton will soon be driven
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  Speaker 1: out