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Christmas Time · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Christmas time. Glad Christmas comes, and every hearth toa carda
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  Speaker 1: make room to give him welcome. Now e'en want will
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  Speaker 1: dry its tears in mirth and crown him with a
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  Speaker 1: holly bough. Though tramping neath a winter sky or snowy
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  Speaker 1: paths and rimy styles, the housewife sets her spinning by
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  Speaker 1: to bid him welcome with her smiles. Each house is
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  Speaker 1: swept the day before, and windows stuck with evergreens. The
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  Speaker 1: snow is beasomed from the door, and comfort crowns the
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  Speaker 1: cottage scenes gilt hollie with its thorny pricks, and you
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  Speaker 1: and box with berries small these deck the unused candlesticks
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  Speaker 1: wall neighbors resume their annual cheer, wishing with smiles and
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  Speaker 1: spirits high glad Christmas and a happy Year to every
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  Speaker 1: morning passerby. Milk maid's their Christmas journeys go, accompanied with
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  Speaker 1: favored swain, and children past the crumpling snow to taste
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  Speaker 1: their granny's cake again. The shepherd, now no more afraid,
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  Speaker 1: since custom doth the chance bestow, starts up finished. The
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  Speaker 1: giggling maid bathrooms beneath the branch of mistletoe that neath
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  Speaker 1: each cottage beam is seen, keyboard dictates with pearl like
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  Speaker 1: cherry gay substitute still of what hath been prohibited, which
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  Speaker 1: fashion yearly fades away. The singing waits a merry throng
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  Speaker 1: at early morn with simple skill and chaunt their Christmas
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  Speaker 1: ditty still and mid the storm that dies eyes and
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  Speaker 1: swells by fits in hummings softly steals the music of
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  Speaker 1: the village, bells linging around their merry peals. When this
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  Speaker 1: is past, a merry crew, becked in masks and ribbons
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  Speaker 1: gay dance their sports renew and act their winter evening play.
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  Speaker 1: The clown termed king for penny praise storms with the
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  Speaker 1: actor's strut and swell, and harlequin a laugh to raise,
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  Speaker 1: wears his hunchback and tinkling bell and oft for pence
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  Speaker 1: and spicy ale cause nosegays pinned before the wahsaale singer
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  Speaker 1: tells her tale and draws her Christmas carols ore, while
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  Speaker 1: prentice boy, with ruddy face and rhyme, the powdered dancing
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  Speaker 1: locks from door to door with happy face, runs round
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  Speaker 1: to claim his Christmas box. The block upon the fire
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  Speaker 1: is put to sanction custom's old desires, and many of
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  Speaker 1: faggot's bands are cut for the old farmer's Christmas fires,
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  Speaker 1: where loud tongued gladness joins the throng, and winter meets
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  Speaker 1: the warmth of May, till, feeling soon the heat too strong,
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  Speaker 1: he rubs his shins and draws away. While snows the
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  Speaker 1: window panes be dim the fire curls up a sunny charm,
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  Speaker 1: where creaming o'er the pitcher's rim. The flowering ale is
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  Speaker 1: set to warm mirth full of joy, as summer bees
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  Speaker 1: sits pleasures to impart, and children tween their parents knees,
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  Speaker 1: sing scraps of carols off by heart, and to view
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  Speaker 1: the winter weathers. Pages climb up the window seat with glee,
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  Speaker 1: likening the snow to falling feathers, clanging in fancy's infant ecstasy,
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  Speaker 1: laughing with superstitious love, or visions wild that youth supplies
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  Speaker 1: minecraft of people pulling geese above and keeping Christmas in
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  Speaker 1: the skies, as though the homestead trees were dressed in
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  Speaker 1: lieu of snow, with dancing leaves breached, as though the
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  Speaker 1: sun dried Martin's nest instead of icles hung the eaves.
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  Speaker 1: The children hail the happy day, embedding as if the
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  Speaker 1: snow were April's grass, no except and pleased as neath
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  Speaker 1: the warmth of May spinner o'er the water froze to glass.
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  Speaker 1: Thou day of happy sound and mirth, that long, with
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  Speaker 1: childish memory, stays pressured around the cottage hearth. It met
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  Speaker 1: thee in my younger days, harping with raptures, dreaming joys,
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  Speaker 1: blades on presents which thy coming found, turbulent sight of
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  Speaker 1: little toys, the Christmas gift of cousins. Round about the
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  Speaker 1: glowing hearth at night, through uniform laugh and winter taiale
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  Speaker 1: optionally go each other or their ale. The cotter oft
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  Speaker 1: with quiet zeal, will musing o'er his bible lean bankrupt,
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  Speaker 1: while in the dark the lover's steel flush and toy
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  Speaker 1: behind the screen old customs, Oh, I love the sound,
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  Speaker 1: however simple they may be. What a'er with time hath
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  Speaker 1: sanctioned found. Pride grows above simplicity and spurns them from
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  Speaker 1: her haughty mind, And soon the poet's song will be
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  Speaker 1: the only refuge they can find.