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Christmas on the Off-Trail · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Christmas on the off Trail. We thought we had forgotten
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  Speaker 1: all the years that lie behind us. And though the
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  Speaker 1: vision beckons through the years that wade ahead, the white
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  Speaker 1: and scarlet berries of the season still remind us that
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  Speaker 1: dreams were merely sleeping, which we thought forever dead. For vagabonds,
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  Speaker 1: it's Christmas and the clans are congregating. Oh vagabonds, it's Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: and we've come so far away, And in the lonesome
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  Speaker 1: shadows they are waiting, waiting, waiting for those who've lost
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  Speaker 1: the road that leads to home. And Christmas Day, we
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  Speaker 1: met our mate, the tramping wind, and so we let
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  Speaker 1: it lead us from one with rose blood in her
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  Speaker 1: veins and son unshine in her hair. It called us
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  Speaker 1: from a mother who we thought would never need us
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  Speaker 1: until the gray December winds brought in her silent prayer.
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  Speaker 1: For Christmas on the off Trail isn't what we used
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  Speaker 1: to think it. The little horns are calling with the
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  Speaker 1: roll beat of the drum, and as we lift our
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  Speaker 1: mocking toast and sullenly we drink it, a kid calls mother, Mother,
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  Speaker 1: and we know how far we've come. Gray ghosts across
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  Speaker 1: the drifting years they come upon our dreaming, the kids
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  Speaker 1: we used to know, before we knew the rover's fate,
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  Speaker 1: the little stockings by the hearth, the mother love a
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  Speaker 1: streaming from weary eyes that look in vain beyond an
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  Speaker 1: old time. Gait, oh vagabonds. Tomorrow we will start with
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  Speaker 1: rag and pack again, and leave a merry song behind
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  Speaker 1: without a parting word. But now we'd give our souls
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  Speaker 1: to know the Christmas highway back again to whisper Mother Mother,
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  Speaker 1: and to know that she had heard