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Lines to Christmas · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Lines to Christmas. The honored plan of yule Tide for
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  Speaker 1: a proper sort of bard has always been to pen
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  Speaker 1: a Christmas poem. The hoary old conventional is never very hard.
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  Speaker 1: The rhymes are very simple if you know them. The
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  Speaker 1: editors demand it, though they never read the same. They
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  Speaker 1: seem to feel that poems are expected Bangkok. So some
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  Speaker 1: of it is weary and the most of it is lame,
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  Speaker 1: though seldom is a Christmas verse rejected. The styles in
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  Speaker 1: hats in motor cars, and cigarettes in war, and even
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  Speaker 1: styles in one's vocabulary are yearly changed to something that
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  Speaker 1: we never had before. But styles in Christmas poems never vary.
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  Speaker 1: So yearly all the holly stuff is polished up anew
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  Speaker 1: to the isthmus projectile a graphics with the thought in
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  Speaker 1: view of writing some immortal lines to Christmas. And who
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  Speaker 1: am I to change the plan to sing another song
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  Speaker 1: than what has been conventional for ages? The public would
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  Speaker 1: denounce the thing as blasphemous and wrong, penetrated itself on
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  Speaker 1: white indignant rages. A merry, Merry Christmas and the Happiest
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  Speaker 1: New Year would seem to be the thing to set
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  Speaker 1: in print type Crimson out sweet bards in Christmas rhyme,
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  Speaker 1: and never have a fear. No novel stuff from me,
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  Speaker 1: not on your tin type