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Christmas Song Of The Old Children · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Christmas song of the old children, Well for youth to
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  Speaker 1: seek the strong bracelets and brave. We the old, who
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  Speaker 1: walk along gently to the grave, only pay our court
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  Speaker 1: to thee glen of all eternity. We are old who
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  Speaker 1: once were young, and we grow more old songs. We
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  Speaker 1: are that have been sung, blind, that have been told,
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  Speaker 1: yellow leaves wind blown to thee childer of eternity. If
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  Speaker 1: we come too sudden near low Earth's infant cries for
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  Speaker 1: our faces wan and drear have such withered eyes, Thou
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  Speaker 1: Heaven's child, turn'st not away from the wrinkled ones who pray.
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  Speaker 1: Smile upon us with thy mouth and thine outh. Thaw
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  Speaker 1: the frozen face child, and thaw all from thee doth
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  Speaker 1: flow song our age's snow, gray haired children. Common crowds
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  Speaker 1: climbed thee. Their hope to greet is its swaddling clothes
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  Speaker 1: or shrouds, hampering so our feet, eldest child, the shadow's gloom,
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  Speaker 1: untreated their aged children home. We have had enough of play,
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  Speaker 1: and the wood grows drear. Many who at break of
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  Speaker 1: day a companied us here they have vanished out of sight,
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  Speaker 1: gone and met the coming light. Fair is this outworld
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  Speaker 1: of thine broad calm nights are cold blockers, and the
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  Speaker 1: sun that makes it fine makes us soon so old,
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  Speaker 1: long its shadows grew row and dim. Father take us
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  Speaker 1: back with him