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Ballade of Christmas Ghosts · Ririro.com - Poetry

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Speaker 1: Ballad of Christmas ghosts between the moonlight and the fire
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Speaker 1: in winter twilights long ago? What ghosts we raised for
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Speaker 1: your desire to make your merry blood run slow? How old,
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Speaker 1: how grave, how wise we grow? No Christmas ghost can
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Speaker 1: make us chill, save those that troop in mournful row
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Speaker 1: the ghosts we all can raise at will. The beasts
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Speaker 1: can talk in barn and byer on Christmas Eve. Old
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Speaker 1: legends know, as year by year the years retire, we
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Speaker 1: men fall silent. Then I trow congestion, hath memory to
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Speaker 1: show such voices from the silence, thrill such shapes return
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Speaker 1: with Christmas snow Burnett. We all can raise at will,
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Speaker 1: o children of the village, choir your carols on the midnight,
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Speaker 1: throw oh oh bright across the mist, and mire ye
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Speaker 1: ruddy hearths of Christmas glow. Beat back the dread, beat
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Speaker 1: down the woe. Let's cheerily descend the hill. Validates all
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Speaker 1: to come or go, brushing the ghosts we all can
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Speaker 1: raise at will, envoy friend, sirsum corda soon or slow dispersed,
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Speaker 1: we part like guests who've joyed their fill. Predicted them
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Speaker 1: not nor mourn them. So the ghosts we all can
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Speaker 1: raise at will,