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The Wandering Minstrel · Ririro.com - Poetry

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Speaker 1: The wandering minstrel. What ho within, good, honest folk, here's
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Speaker 1: one will sing you ballads quaint as Carvin, shapes of
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Speaker 1: fiend and saint that deck your beams of blackened oak?
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Speaker 1: What ho mine, host? Here's one at last who comes
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Speaker 1: to solace all your guests with merry songs that made
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Speaker 1: their nests among the gables of the past. Then let
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Speaker 1: him in. He knows the way to sweetened loaf and
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Speaker 1: brighten fire. He sings of crested knight and squire, of
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Speaker 1: lovely Dame and friendly fay of turband, paynems dark and
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Speaker 1: fierce of elfin circles emerald green of blades, by wizard
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Speaker 1: art made keen and shields no mortal dart could pierce.
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Speaker 1: And though your coin must pay his pains, not all
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Speaker 1: for gold. He plies his art, But holiday is in
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Speaker 1: his e'n while he stands and counts his gains to
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Speaker 1: him should every door unbar at Christmas tide, For then
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Speaker 1: he sings old chansons of the three wise Kings of
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Speaker 1: Orient and the mystic star Noel Noel. The carol rings
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Speaker 1: through cold blue night Afar Afar, and bears to cots
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Speaker 1: where shepherds are white thoughts that throng on angel wings