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Noel: A Ballade for Christmas · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Noel, a ballad for Christmas. The bells chime happily across
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  Speaker 1: the night, the night that crowns the almost dying year,
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  Speaker 1: and soon the morning, with its dawning light, proclaims that
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  Speaker 1: Christmas Day at last is here. The children, high aloft
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  Speaker 1: the boar's head, bring, and as they march their merry
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  Speaker 1: carols sing, while Christendom joins in their tuneful lay. For
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  Speaker 1: at this season all are glad and gay, and men
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  Speaker 1: and women, with their hearts aglow, shout out with one
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  Speaker 1: accord on Christmas Day. Hail to the yule log and
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  Speaker 1: the mistletoe, emblems of many, an old time honored right
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  Speaker 1: of boisterous mirth and homely honest cheer the yule log
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  Speaker 1: flaming high and blazing bright, the mistletoe to youths and
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  Speaker 1: maiden see for snap dragon, how they form a ring,
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  Speaker 1: or in a contradance their partners swing. Lord of misrule
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  Speaker 1: makes good his sobriquet, and all his mandates eagerly obey.
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  Speaker 1: He wields the scepter, and with loud hallo cries lustily,
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  Speaker 1: with none to say him nay, Hail to the yule
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  Speaker 1: log and the missiletoe. All climbs and classes own the
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  Speaker 1: season's might. It rules alike the peasant and the peer.
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  Speaker 1: The humblest home presents a happy sight. The sternest judge
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  Speaker 1: forgets to look severe. The very birds fly by on
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  Speaker 1: lighter wing. The blustering north wind seems to lose its sting.
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  Speaker 1: The old and young, the golden haired and gray, devote
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  Speaker 1: the hours to merriment and play. And far across the crispy,
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  Speaker 1: crackling snow, we hear a chorus from a fly slay,
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  Speaker 1: Hail to the yule log and the mistletoe, the chosen
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  Speaker 1: theme of many a fancy's flight, a balladmonger or a sonneteer.
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  Speaker 1: Yearly his Christmas poem will indict of a coy maiden
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  Speaker 1: and her cavalier. Shakespeare full often had his merry fling,
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  Speaker 1: and Milton tuned his harp to noble string irving. The
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  Speaker 1: scenes of Christmas could betray and dickens, its true spirit
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  Speaker 1: could convey to song and story a rich debt we owe,
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  Speaker 1: and with triumphant cheer, this tribute pay hail to the
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  Speaker 1: yule log and the mistletoe. And as the sacred season
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  Speaker 1: circles near all evil thoughts and themes are banished. Quite
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  Speaker 1: our lives become more gentle and sincere. Our hearts can
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  Speaker 1: find no room for dole or spite. Peons of praise
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  Speaker 1: from thankful hearts upspring to celebrate the birthday of the King,
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  Speaker 1: all humbly for our brother's weal. We pray and ask
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  Speaker 1: a blessing on our future way our generous gifts on others.
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  Speaker 1: We bestow peace upon earth, good will to men. We
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  Speaker 1: say hail to the yule Log and the Mistletoe, Envoy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit of Christmas. We accept thee yea right willingly. We
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  Speaker 1: bow beneath thy sway. We join our songs to those
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  Speaker 1: of long ago with this refrain forever and for aye.
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  Speaker 1: Hail to the eu Log and the Mistletoe