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A Song For Christmas · Ririro.com - Poetry

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Speaker 1: A song for Christmas. Hark in the steeple, the dull
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Speaker 1: bell swinging over the furrows, ill plowed by death, flushed
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Speaker 1: the bird babble, the loud lark singing. Hark from the
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Speaker 1: sky what the prophet saith. Hark in the pines, the
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Speaker 1: free wind, complaining and murmuring life is bare. Hark in
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Speaker 1: the organ, the caught wind, outstraining, jubilant, rise in a
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Speaker 1: soaring prayer. Toll for the burying sexton tolling, sing for
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Speaker 1: the second birth. Angel, lark, moan ye poor pines, with
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Speaker 1: the past condoling, Burst out, brave organ, and kill the dark.
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Speaker 1: Sit on the ground and immure thy sorrow crunch. I
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Speaker 1: will give freedom to mine in song. Haunt thou the tomb,
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Speaker 1: and deny the morrow. I will go watch in the
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Speaker 1: dawning long, for I shall see them and know their
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Speaker 1: faces tenderer, sweeter and shining more. Clasp the old self
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Speaker 1: in the new embraces. Gaze through their eyes, wide open door,
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Speaker 1: loved ones, I come to you, see my sadness. I
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Speaker 1: am ashamed, but you pardon wrong. Smile the old smile,
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Speaker 1: and my soul's new gladness straight will arise in sorrow
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Speaker 1: and song,