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To Mrs. K____, On Her Sending Me an English Christmas Plum-Cake in Paris · Ririro.com - Poetry

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Speaker 1: To missus kay on her sending me an English Christmas
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Speaker 1: plum cake in Paris? What crowding thoughts around me? Wake?
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Speaker 1: What marvels in a Christmas cake? Ah? Say? What strange
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Speaker 1: enchantment dwells enclosed within its odorous cells? Is there no
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Speaker 1: small magician bound encrusted in its snowy round? For magic
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Speaker 1: surely lurks in this. A cake that tells a vanished bliss,
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Speaker 1: A cake that conjures up to view the early scenes
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Speaker 1: when life was new, when memory knew, no sorrows passed,
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Speaker 1: and hope believed in joys. That last, mysterious cake whose
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Speaker 1: folds contain life's calendar of bliss and pain, that speaks
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Speaker 1: of friends forever fled and and wakes the tears I
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Speaker 1: love to shed oft Shall I breathe her cherished name
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Speaker 1: from whose fair hand the offering came for? She recalls
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Speaker 1: the artless smile of nymphs that deck my native isle
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Speaker 1: of beauty that we love to trace, allied with tender,
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Speaker 1: modest grace of those who, while abroad they roam, retain
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Speaker 1: each charm that gladdens home, and whose dear friendships can
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Speaker 1: impart a Christmas banquet for the heart