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The Christmas Holly · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: The Christmas holly, the holly, the holly, Oh, twine it
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  Speaker 1: with bay. Come give the holly a song, for it
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  Speaker 1: helps to drive stern winter away with his garment. So
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  Speaker 1: somber and long it peeps through the trees with its
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  Speaker 1: berries of red and its leaves of burnished green, when
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  Speaker 1: the flowers and fruits have long been dead, and not
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  Speaker 1: even the daisy is seen. Then sing to the holly,
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  Speaker 1: the Christmas holly that hangs over peasant and king, while
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  Speaker 1: we laugh and carouse neath its glittering boughs immobile. To
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  Speaker 1: the Christmas Holly will sing. The gale may whistle, and
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  Speaker 1: frost may come to fetter the gurgling rill. The woods
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  Speaker 1: may be bare, and the warbler's dumb, but the holly
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  Speaker 1: is beautiful. Still in the revel and light of princely halls,
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  Speaker 1: the bright holly branch is found, and its shadow falls
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  Speaker 1: on the lowliest walls, while the brimming horn goes round.
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  Speaker 1: Then drink to the holly, the Christmas holly that hangs
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  Speaker 1: over peasant and king, while we laugh and carouse neath
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  Speaker 1: its glittering boughs. Submerged to the Christmas Holly will sing.
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  Speaker 1: The ivy lives long, but Its home must be where
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  Speaker 1: graves and ruins are spread. Embroidery about the cypress tree,
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  Speaker 1: but it flourishes near the dead. The laurel the warrior's
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  Speaker 1: brow may wreathe. It tells of tears and blood. I
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  Speaker 1: sing the holly, And who can breathe aught of that
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  Speaker 1: that is not good? Then sing to the holly. The
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  Speaker 1: Christmas holly that hangs over peasant and king blooded will
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  Speaker 1: laugh and carouse neath its glittering boughs. Restless Christmas Holly,
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  Speaker 1: We'll sing