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Within and Without · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Within and without. Within the hall are song and laughter.
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  Speaker 1: The cheeks of Christmas glow red and jolly, and sprouting
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  Speaker 1: is every corbel and rafter with lightsome green of ivy
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  Speaker 1: and holly. Through the deep gulf of the chimney wide
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  Speaker 1: wallows the yule log's roaring hide. The broad flame pennons
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  Speaker 1: droop and flap and belly and tug as a flag
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  Speaker 1: in the wind. Like a locust shrills the imprisoned sap
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  Speaker 1: hunted to death in its galleries, blind and swift, little
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  Speaker 1: troops of silent sparks, now pausing, now scattering away as
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  Speaker 1: in fear go threading. The soot forests tangled darks like
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  Speaker 1: herds of startled deer. But the wind without was eager
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  Speaker 1: and sharp of Sir Lawnful's gray hair. It makes a
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  Speaker 1: harp and rattles and rings, the icy strings, singing in
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  Speaker 1: dreary monotone, a Christmas carol of its own, whose burden, still,
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  Speaker 1: as he might guess, was shelterless, shelterless, shelterless. The voice
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  Speaker 1: of the Seneschal flared like a torch as he shouted
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  Speaker 1: the wanderer away from the porch, and he sat in
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  Speaker 1: the gateway and saw all night the great hall fire,
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  Speaker 1: so cheery and bold, through the window slits of the
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  Speaker 1: castle old build out, its peers of ruddy light against
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  Speaker 1: the drift of the cold