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Wassail! Wassail! · Ririro.com - Poetry

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Speaker 1: Wassail, wassail, wassail, wassail, Ye merry men, hail who brightened
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Speaker 1: the days of old. What brave conceits and humorsome feats
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Speaker 1: are sung of our father's bold From morning chime unto
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Speaker 1: vesper time, they reveled in careless glee, and danced at
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Speaker 1: night with spirits as light as the notes of their minstrelsy. Wassail, wassail.
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Speaker 1: At the knight's for gale, twas the signal for deep carouse,
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Speaker 1: nor there alone, for the joyous tone shook many a
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Speaker 1: priestly house. The monks forgot their bachelor's lot, surrounded by
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Speaker 1: goodly cheer, and raised the cup in its brim full
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Speaker 1: up to the utter contempt of care Wassail, wassail, cried
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Speaker 1: the yeoman as he shouldered his quarter staff and homeward road,
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Speaker 1: where the spiced ale stood awaiting his hardy quaff. The cot, meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: lit up by the smile of a frank, good hearted mirth,
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Speaker 1: and free to all who might chance to call, was
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Speaker 1: the happiest place on earth.