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The Mahogany Tree · Ririro.com - Poetry

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Speaker 1: The mahogany tree. Christmas is here. Winds whistle, shrill, icy
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Speaker 1: and chill. Little care we little, we fear weather without
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Speaker 1: sheltered about the mahogany tree. Once on the boughs, birds
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Speaker 1: of rare plume sang in its bloom. Night birds are
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Speaker 1: we here, we carouse, singing like them, perched round the
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Speaker 1: stem of the jolly old tree. Here, let us sport
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Speaker 1: boys as we sit, laughter and wit flashing so free.
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Speaker 1: Life is but short when we are gone. Let them
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Speaker 1: sing on round the old tree. Evenings we knew happy
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Speaker 1: as this faces we miss pleasant to see kind hearts
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Speaker 1: and true gentle and just peace to your dust. We
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Speaker 1: sing the tree care like a dun lurks at the gate.
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Speaker 1: Let the dog wait, happy will be drink everyone, pile
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Speaker 1: up the coals. Fill the red bulls round the old tree.
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Speaker 1: Drain we the cup friend art afraid. Spirits are laid
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Speaker 1: in the red sea mantle it up empty it Yet
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Speaker 1: let us forget round the old tree. Sorrows begone, life
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Speaker 1: and its ills, duns and their bills bid we to flee.
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Speaker 1: Come with the dawn, blue devil sprite, leave us tonight
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Speaker 1: round the old tree