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Christmas is come and every hearth	A
Makes room to give him welcome now	B
E'en want will dry its tears in mirth	C
And crown him wi' a holly bough	B
Tho tramping 'neath a winters sky	D
O'er snow track paths and rhymey stiles	E
The huswife sets her spining bye	D
And bids him welcome wi' her smiles	E
Each house is swept the day before	F
And windows stuck wi' evergreens	G
The snow is beesom'd from the door	F
And comfort crowns the cottage scenes	G
Gilt holly wi' its thorny pricks	H
And yew and box wi' berrys small	I
These deck the unus'd candlesticks	H
And pictures hanging by the wall	I
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Neighbours resume their anual cheer	J
Wishing wi smiles and spirits high	D
Clad christmass and a happy year	J
To every morning passer bye	D
Milk maids their christmass journeys go	K
Accompanyd wi favourd swain	L
And childern pace the crumping snow	K
To taste their grannys cake again	M
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Hung wi the ivys veining bough	B
The ash trees round the cottage farm	N
Are often stript of branches now	B
The cotters christmass hearth to warm	O
He swings and twists his hazel band	P
And lops them off wi sharpend hook	Q
And oft brings ivy in his hand	P
To decorate the chimney nook	Q
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Old winter whipes his ides bye	D
And warms his fingers till he smiles	E
Where cottage hearths are blazing high	D
And labour resteth from his toils	R
Wi merry mirth beguiling care	S
Old customs keeping wi the day	T
Friends meet their christmass cheer to share	S
And pass it in a harmless way	T
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Old customs O I love the sound	U
However simple they may be	V
What ere wi time has sanction found	U
Is welcome and is dear to me	V
Pride grows above simplicity	V
And spurns it from her haughty mind	W
And soon the poets song will be	V
The only refuge they can find	W
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The shepherd now no more afraid	X
Since custom doth the chance bestow	K
Starts up to kiss the giggling maid	X
Beneath the branch of mizzletoe	X
That neath each cottage beam is seen	Y
Wi pearl like berrys shining gay	T
The shadow still of what hath been	Z
Which fashion yearly fades away	T
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And singers too a merry throng	A2
At early morn wi simple skill	B2
Yet imitate the angels song	A2
And chant their christmass ditty still	B2
And mid the storm that dies and swells	C2
By fits in humings softly steals	D2
The music of the village bells	C2
Ringing round their merry peals	C2
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And when its past a merry crew	E2
Bedeckt in masks and ribbons gay	T
The 'Morrice danse' their sports renew	E2
And act their winter evening play	T
The clown turnd kings for penny praise	C2
Storm wi the actors strut and swell	F2
And harlequin a laugh to raise	C2
Wears his hump back and tinkling bell	F2
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And oft for pence and spicy ale	G2
Wi winter nosgays pind before	F
The wassail singer tells her tale	G2
And drawls her christmass carrols oer	F
The prentice boy wi ruddy face	C2
And ryhme bepowderd dancing locks	C2
From door to door wi happy pace	C2
Runs round to claim his 'christmass box'	C2
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The block behind the fire is put	X
To sanction customs old desires	C2
And many a faggots bands are cut	X
For the old farmers christmass fires	C2
Where loud tongd gladness joins the throng	A2
And winter meets the warmth of may	T
Feeling by times the heat too strong	A2
And rubs his shins and draws away	T
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While snows the window panes bedim	T
The fire curls up a sunny charm	T
Where creaming oer the pitchers rim	T
The flowering ale is set to warm	T
Mirth full of joy as summer bees	C2
Sits there its pleasures to impart	X
While childern tween their parents knees	C2
Sing scraps of carrols oer by heart	X
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And some to view the winter weathers	C2
Climb up the window seat wi glee	V
Likening the snow to falling feathers	C2
In fancys infant extacy	C2
Laughing wi superstitious love	H2
Oer visions wild that youth supplyes	C2
Of people pulling geese above	H2
And keeping christmass in the skyes	C2
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As tho the homstead trees were drest	X
In lieu of snow wi dancing leaves	C2
As tho the sundryd martins nest	X
Instead of ides hung the eaves	C2
The childern hail the happy day	X
As if the snow was april grass	C2
And pleasd as neath the warmth of may	X
Sport oer the water froze to glass	C2
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Thou day of happy sound and mirth	C
That long wi childish memory stays	C2
How blest around the cottage hearth	A
I met thee in my boyish days	C2
Harping wi raptures dreaming joys	C2
On presents that thy coming found	X
The welcome sight of little toys	C2
The christmass gifts of comers round	X
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'The wooden horse wi arching head	X
Drawn upon wheels around the room	T
The gilded coach of ginger bread	X
And many colord sugar plumb	T
Gilt coverd books for pictures sought	X
Or storys childhood loves to tell	F2
Wi many a urgent promise bought	X
To get tomorrows lesson well	F2
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And many a thing a minutes sport	X
Left broken on the sanded floor	F
When we woud leave our play and court	X
Our parents promises for more	F
Tho manhood bids such raptures dye	D
And throws such toys away as vain	L
Yet memory loves to turn her eye	D
And talk such pleasures oer again	M
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Around the glowing hearth at night	X
The harmless laugh and winter tale	G2
Goes round while parting friends delight	X
To toast each other oer their ale	G2
The cotter oft wi quiet zeal	I2
Will musing oer his bible lean	Y
While in the dark the lovers steal	I2
To kiss and toy behind the screen	Y
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The yule cake dotted thick wi plumbs	C2
Is on each supper table found	X
And cats look up for falling crumbs	C2
Which greedy childern litter round	X
And huswifes sage stuffd seasond chine	Y
Long hung in chimney nook to drye	D
And boiling eldern berry wine	Y
To drink the christmas eves 'good bye'	D

John Clare

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