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Speakin’ O’ Christmas · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Speakin', Oh Christmas. Breezes blowin' middle and brisk snowflakes through
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  Speaker 1: the air, a whisk fallin' kind of soft and light,
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  Speaker 1: not enough to make things white, but just sorder siftin'
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  Speaker 1: down so as to cover up the brown of the
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  Speaker 1: dark world's rugged ways and make things look like Holidays.
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  Speaker 1: Not smoothed over, but just specked sorder, strainin' for effect,
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  Speaker 1: and not quite a gettin through what it started in
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  Speaker 1: to do. Mercy sakes, it does seem queer. Christmas Day
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  Speaker 1: is most nigh here. Somehow, it don't seem to me
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  Speaker 1: Christmas like it used to be Christmas, with its ice
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  Speaker 1: and snow, Christmas of the long ago. You could feel
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  Speaker 1: its stir and hum weeks and weeks before it come.
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  Speaker 1: Something in the atmosphere told you when the day was near,
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  Speaker 1: didn't need no almanacs. That was one of nature's facts.
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  Speaker 1: Every cottage decked out gay cedar wreaths and holly spray,
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  Speaker 1: and the stores how they were dressed tinsel tell you
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  Speaker 1: couldn't rest every winder fixed up pat candy canes and
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  Speaker 1: things like that. Noah's arks and guns and dolls and
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of folderols, then with frosty bells a chime
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  Speaker 1: slidin down the hills a time right amidst the fun
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  Speaker 1: and din Christmas come a bustlin' in raised his cheery
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  Speaker 1: voice to call out a welcome to us. All hail
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  Speaker 1: and hardy, strong and bluff. That was Christmas, sure enough.
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  Speaker 1: Snow knee deep and coast and fine frozen mill ponds,
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  Speaker 1: all ashine seemin jest to lay and wait, beggin you
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  Speaker 1: to come and skate, and you'd get your gal and
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  Speaker 1: go stumpin' cheerily through the snow, feelin pleased and scared
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  Speaker 1: and warm because she had a holt your arm. Why
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  Speaker 1: when Christmas come in, we spent the whole glad day
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  Speaker 1: in glee, having fun and feast and high and some
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  Speaker 1: courtin on the sly bursting in some neighbor's door. And
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  Speaker 1: then suddenly, before he could give his voice a lift,
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  Speaker 1: yelling at him Christmas gift. Now, sich, things are never heard.
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  Speaker 1: Merry Christmas is the word, but it's only change a
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  Speaker 1: name and means given just the same. There's too many
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  Speaker 1: new styled ways now about the holidays. I'd just like
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  Speaker 1: once more to see Christmas like it used to be,