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The Antipodes: Christmas at the Cape · Ririro.com - Poetry

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Speaker 1: The Antipodes Christmas at the Cape, Your Christmas comes with
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Speaker 1: holly leaves and snow about your doors and eaves, Our
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Speaker 1: lighted windows open wide, let in our summer Christmas tide,
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Speaker 1: and where the drifting moths may go, behold our tiny
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Speaker 1: flakes of snow. But Carol Carol in the cold, and
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Speaker 1: Carol Carol, as ye may we sing the merry songs
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Speaker 1: of old as merrily on Christmas Day. Your hills are
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Speaker 1: wrapped in rainy cloud, Your sea in anger, roars aloud.
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Speaker 1: But here our hills are veiled with haze, in harmonies
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Speaker 1: of blues and grays. The waters of two oceans meet
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Speaker 1: with friendly murmurs by our feet. But Carol Carol, Christmas waits,
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Speaker 1: and Carol Carol, as ye may the crickets by our
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Speaker 1: doors and gates sing in the grace of Christmas Day.
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Speaker 1: The rain and sunshine of the Cape lie folded in
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Speaker 1: the ripening grape, and Stellenbosch and Drakenstein with bounteous orchard
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Speaker 1: field of vine, and every spot that we pass by
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Speaker 1: lie burnished neath our Christmas sky. So Carol Carol in
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Speaker 1: your snow, and Carol Carol, as ye may we Carol
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Speaker 1: mid our blooms, a blow the grace of summer's Christmas
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Speaker 1: Day