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Church Decking at Christmas · Ririro.com - Poetry

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Speaker 1: Church decking at Christmas. Would that our scrupulous sires had
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Speaker 1: dared to leave less scanty measure of those graceful rites,
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Speaker 1: slacky and usages, whose due return invites a stir of
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Speaker 1: mind too natural to deceive, getting the memory help when
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Speaker 1: she could weave a crown for hope. I dread the
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Speaker 1: boasted lights that all too often are but fiery blights
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Speaker 1: killing the bud, or which in vain we grieve, go
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Speaker 1: seek when Christmas snows discomfort, bring boundary spirit found in
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Speaker 1: some gay church pike green with fresh holly every pew,
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Speaker 1: a perch in which the linnet or the thrush might
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Speaker 1: sing merry and loud, and safe from prying search. September
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Speaker 1: strains offered only to the genial spring