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A Christmas Doll · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: A Christmas doll, smiling Dolly with the eyes of blue?
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  Speaker 1: Was it lovely where they fashioned you? Were there laughing gnomes,
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  Speaker 1: and did the breeze toss the snow along the Christmas trees?
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  Speaker 1: Tiny hands and chill and thin rags, torn faces drawn
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  Speaker 1: with waking night, and morn eyes that strained until they
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  Speaker 1: could not see, Little mother, where they fashioned me gold
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  Speaker 1: haired Dolly in the silken dress? Tell me where you
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  Speaker 1: found your loveliness? Were they fairy folk who clad you
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  Speaker 1: so gold? Wands quivering, and wings aglow? Narrow walls and
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  Speaker 1: low and tumbled bed one dim lamp to see to
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  Speaker 1: nought the thread. This was all I saw till dark
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  Speaker 1: came down, Little mother, where they sowed my gown rosy
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  Speaker 1: Dolly on my Christmas tree? Tell the lovely things you
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  Speaker 1: saw to me? Were their golden birds and silver dew
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  Speaker 1: in the fairylands They brought you through weary footsteps all
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  Speaker 1: and weary faces, serving crowds within the crowded places. This
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  Speaker 1: was all I saw the christ eve through Little Mother.
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  Speaker 1: Ere I came to you, smiling Dolly in the Christmas green.
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  Speaker 1: What do all these cruel stories mean? Are there children then,
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  Speaker 1: who cannot say thanks to Christ for this his natal day. Ay,
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  Speaker 1: there's weariness and want and shame, pain and evil in
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  Speaker 1: the good Lord's name. Things the peasant christ child could
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  Speaker 1: not know on his quiet birthday. They long ago