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To An Old Fogey · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: To an old fogie. Christmas is played out, oh frankly
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  Speaker 1: bald and obviously stout. And so you find that Christmas
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  Speaker 1: as a fete blackjack passionately viewed, is getting out of date.
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  Speaker 1: The studied festal air is overdone, the humor of it
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  Speaker 1: grows a little thin. You fail, in fact, to gather
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  Speaker 1: where the fun chilled. Six visions of very heavy meals
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  Speaker 1: arise that tend to make your organism shiver. Roast beer
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  Speaker 1: that irks, and pies that agonize graphite the liver, those
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  Speaker 1: pies at which you annually WinCE hearing the tail. How
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  Speaker 1: happy months will follow proportioned to the total mass of
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  Speaker 1: mints suppressed. Visions of youth whose reverence is scant, who
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  Speaker 1: with the brutal verve of boyhood's prime, insist on being
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  Speaker 1: taken to the pantmime of infants sitting up extremely late,
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  Speaker 1: who run you on to boggins down the stair, or
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  Speaker 1: make you fetch a rug and simulate a bear. This
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  Speaker 1: takes your faultless trousers at the knees. The other hurts
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  Speaker 1: them rather more behind, and both effect a fracture in
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  Speaker 1: your ease of mind. My good dyspeptic, this will never do.
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  Speaker 1: Your weary withers must be sadly wrung. Yet once I
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  Speaker 1: well believe that even you Nationals were young. Time was
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  Speaker 1: when you devoured like other boys, plum putting sequent on
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  Speaker 1: a turkey hen corrections with cracker mottoes, hinting of the
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  Speaker 1: joys of men. Time was when mid the maidens you
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  Speaker 1: would pull the fiery raisin with profound delight, When spriggs
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  Speaker 1: of mistletoe seemed beautiful named, and right old Christmas changes.
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  Speaker 1: Not long long ago, he won the treasure of eternal youth.
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  Speaker 1: Yours is the dotage. If you want to know the truth,
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  Speaker 1: come now. I'll cure your case and ask no fee.
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  Speaker 1: Make others happiness, This ONTs your own. All else may pass.
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  Speaker 1: That joy can never be outgrown