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The True Christmas · Ririro.com - Poetry

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Speaker 1: The true Christmas. So stick up Ivy and the bays,
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Speaker 1: and then restore the heathen ways. Green will remind you
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Speaker 1: of the spring. Though this great day denies the thing
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Speaker 1: and mortifies the earth, and all but your wild revels
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Speaker 1: and loose haul. Could you wear flowers and roses strow
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Speaker 1: blushing upon your breast's warm snow, that very dress your
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Speaker 1: lightness will rebuke and wither at the will. The brightness
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Speaker 1: of this day we owe not unto music, mask, nor show,
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Speaker 1: nor gallant furniture nor plait, but to the manger's mean estate.
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Speaker 1: His life, while here, as well as birth, was but
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Speaker 1: a check to pomp and mirth, and all man's greatness
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Speaker 1: you may see condemned by his humility. Then leave your
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Speaker 1: open house and noise to welcome him with holy joys
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Speaker 1: and the poor shepherd's watchfulness, whom light and hymns from
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Speaker 1: heaven did Bless what you abound with. Cast abroad to
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Speaker 1: those that want, and ease your load. Who empties thus
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Speaker 1: will bring more in. But riot is both loss and sin.
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Speaker 1: Dress finely what comes not in sight, and then you
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Speaker 1: keep your Christmas right