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Christmas Evergreens · Ririro.com - Poetry

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Speaker 1: Christmas evergreens. When winter nights grow long and winds without
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Speaker 1: blow cold, we sit in a ring round the warm
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Speaker 1: wood fire and listen to stories old, and we try
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Speaker 1: to look grave as maids should be. When the men
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Speaker 1: bring in boughs of the laurel tree, Oh, the laurel,
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Speaker 1: the evergreen tree. The poets have laurels, And why not
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Speaker 1: we how pleasant when night falls down and hides the
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Speaker 1: wintry sun, to see them come in to the blazing
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Speaker 1: fire and know that their work is done. Whilst many
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Speaker 1: bring in, with a laugh or rhyme, green branches of
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Speaker 1: holly for Christmas time. Oh the holly, the bright green holly.
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Speaker 1: It tells like a tongue that the times are jolly.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes in our grave house observe this happeneth not. But
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Speaker 1: at times the evergreen morale boughs and the holly are
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Speaker 1: all forgot. And then what then, why the men laugh
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Speaker 1: low and hang up a branch of the mistletoe. Oh,
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Speaker 1: brave is the laurel, and brave is the holly. But
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Speaker 1: the mistletoe banisheth melancholy. Ah, nobody knows, nor ever shall know,
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Speaker 1: what is done under the mistletoe