Christmas Comes Again
"Christmas Comes Again" is a Christmas poem that holds celebration and grief in tense balance. The speaker rallies for festive cheer — clinking glasses, singing sailors' and soldiers' songs — while haunted by the absence of brothers lost too soon. Two embedded songs pulse with the energy of men heading into battle or out to sea, yet the speaker's plea at the close reveals raw pain beneath the revelry: keep the graves out of sight, hold my hands, and let the Christmas chime ring on.
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