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A Song of the Christmas Wind · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: A song of the Christmas wind. As on my roving way,
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  Speaker 1: I go beneath the starlight's gleaming, upon a bank of
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  Speaker 1: feathery snow, I find a moonbeam dreaming. I crouch beside
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  Speaker 1: the pretty miss, and cautiously I give her my gentlest,
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  Speaker 1: tenderest little kiss, and frown to see her shiver. A hoe,
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  Speaker 1: a hoe on bed of snow. Beneath the starlight's gleaming,
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  Speaker 1: I steal the bliss of one sweet kiss from that
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  Speaker 1: fair friend, a dreaming. I scamper up the gloomy street
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  Speaker 1: with wild, hilarious shrieking, and each rheumatic sign I meet,
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  Speaker 1: I set forthwith to creaking, the sooty chimneys wheeze and
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  Speaker 1: sigh in dismal apprehension. And when the rich man passes by,
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  Speaker 1: I pay him marked attention aho ahoe, with gusts of snow.
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  Speaker 1: I love to pelt and blind him, but I kiss
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  Speaker 1: the curls of the beggar girls who crouch in the
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  Speaker 1: dark behind him. In summer time, a posy fair bloomed
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  Speaker 1: on the distant heather, and every day we prattled there
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  Speaker 1: and sang our songs together, And thither as we sang
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  Speaker 1: or told of love's unchanging glory. A maiden and her
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  Speaker 1: lover strolled, repeating our sweet story. Ahe ah, we murmur low.
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  Speaker 1: The maid and I together for summer's sped, and love
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  Speaker 1: is dead Upon the distant heather