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The Seven Sets of Presents · Ririro.com - Poetry

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Speaker 1: The seven sets of presents, all the world's a Christmas tree,
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Speaker 1: and all the men and women merely children, And each
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Speaker 1: man in his time gets many gifts, his lot being
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Speaker 1: seven series. At first the infant with his feeding spoons
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Speaker 1: and rattles, then the trumpet and tin soldiers, skates and
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Speaker 1: slay and fireman's helmet, and then the lover like a
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Speaker 1: furnace with a gaudy necktie knit by his lady's fingers.
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Speaker 1: Then a hubby showered by his friends, with socks and gloves,
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Speaker 1: and pipes that will not draw ink, wells of brass
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Speaker 1: and fountain pins that leak, or else some painted china
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Speaker 1: his wife can use as well. And then the middle
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Speaker 1: aged of fair round belly with a little cap to
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Speaker 1: hide his shining pate. The sixth set sinks into the carpet,
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Speaker 1: slipper game or bad cigars, a silver cutter since his
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Speaker 1: teeth are bad. Last gift of all that ends this strange,
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Speaker 1: eventful history is failing sight. Then they bring a magnifying
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Speaker 1: glass for Grandpa