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A Christmas Carol, Sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: A Christmas carol sung to the King in the presence
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  Speaker 1: at Whitehall. What sweeter music can we bring? Then? A
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  Speaker 1: carol for to sing the birth of this our heavenly king. Awake,
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  Speaker 1: the voice awake, the string, heart, ear, and eye, and
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  Speaker 1: everything awake, while the active finger runs division with the
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  Speaker 1: singer from the flourish they came to the song, dark
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  Speaker 1: and dull night, Fly hence away and give the honor
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  Speaker 1: to this day that sees December turned to May. If
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  Speaker 1: we may ask the reason, say the why and wherefore
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  Speaker 1: all things here seem like the springtime of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Why does the chilling winter's morn smile like a field
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  Speaker 1: the set with corn or smell like to a meed unshorn.
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  Speaker 1: Thus on a sudden come and see the cause why
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  Speaker 1: things thus fragrant betis He is born, whose quickening birth
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  Speaker 1: gives life and luster public mirth to heaven and the
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  Speaker 1: under earth. Core we see him, Come and know him ours, who,
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  Speaker 1: with his sunshine and his showers, turns all the patient
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  Speaker 1: ground to flowers. The darling of the world is come,
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  Speaker 1: and fit it is we find a room to welcome him.
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  Speaker 1: The nobler part of all the house here is the
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  Speaker 1: heart core which we will give him and bequeath the
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  Speaker 1: holly and this ivy wreath to do him honor. Who's
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  Speaker 1: our king and lord of all this revel ling