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8 0! for the holly and the Yuletide jolly and the joys
of Christmas time!
They are worth a song, and well sing it strong, with
a resonant ring of rhyme!
Though the lands may war, while the gods abhor, and the
Golden Fleece be stained
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With brave men’s blood in a" turgid flood, the~Chrfs1
hath not waned! ,—' “ ' ■<-. >
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HE rich increase of a year of peace in a wide and
goodly land,
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The abundant yields of a million fields by benignant
heavens spanned
They are ours today, and the heart of May thrills through
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December drear:
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So it’s ours to sing with the oldtime ring a song of.• . ,
mas cheer!
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HOUGH men may fight and the woeful blight of war
blast' half the earth,
They. cannot
of the
deep in the heart
land and sea:
So we’ll sing with a will
tide glee!
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ROM the blazing fire the sparks aspire, and the laden
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tree is bright,
And the children play on the
hearts are light
Because of the joy of girl and boy
is long! .
So it’s ho! for a rhym$ of Cl
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