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Old Lucia who for many years walked back and forth every day and in	A
all weathers between Azzano and Menaggio a distance of six miles	B
bearing merchandise of all sorts in a basket on her back fell to the	C
ground exhausted as she was nearing her poor home on Christmas Eve	D
She died next morning at the age of seventy three At the time she	E
fell she was carrying a load of nearly one hundred pounds	F
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Patient toiler on the road	G
Bending 'neath your heavy load	G
Worn and furrowed is your face	H
Slow and tremulous your pace	H
Yet you still pursue your way	I
Bearing burdens day by day	I
With the same pathetic smile	J
Over many a weary mile	J
As you bravely come and go	K
To and from Menaggio	K
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Snowy white your scanty hair	L
Crowns a forehead seamed with care	L
And a look of suffering lies	M
In your clear blue wistful eyes	M
While your thin and ashen cheek	K
Tells the tale you will not speak	K
Of a lodging dark and old	N
And a hearth so bare and cold	N
That you often hungry go	K
To and from Menaggio	K
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Never know you days of rest	O
Ceaseless is your humble quest	O
Of the pittance that you ask	K
For your arduous daily task	K
Every morning sees your form	P
Pass through sunshine or through storm	P
Every evening hears your feet	Q
Trudging up the darkened street	Q
For your gait is always slow	K
Coming from Menaggio	K
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Once your dull eyes gleamed with light	R
Once those arms were round and white	R
And the feet now roughly shod	S
Lightly danced upon the sod	S
As to womanhood you grew	T
And a lover's rapture knew	T
For you once were fair 'tis said	U
Early wooed and early wed	U
And your husband long ago	K
Died in old Menaggio	K
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Children Aye but not one cares	V
How the poor old mother fares	V
You must struggle on alone	W
They have children of their own	W
And for them devoid of shame	X
All your scanty earnings claim	X
Can you walk Then go you must	Y
Plodding on through rain and dust	Y
Summer heat and winter's snow	K
To and from Menaggio	K
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Christmas Eve Through glistening green	Z
Gleams a merry festive scene	Z
Trees with candles burning bright	R
Wake in children's hearts delight	R
Where such peace and comfort reign	A2
None observes the window pane	A2
Where your wan face sadly peers	B2
Through a mist of falling tears	V
At a joy you never know	K
Carrier from Menaggio	K
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Much that makes those children gay	K
You have brought them day by day	K
Thankful that you thus could earn	C2
Wood to make your hearthstone burn	C2
Not for you such food and light	R
Clothing warm and candles bright	R
You are grateful if you gain	A2
Bread to stifle hunger's pain	A2
Ah it was not always so	K
In old time Menaggio	K
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She has turned to climb the hill	D2
Stay why lies she there so still	D2
Have her old limbs failed at last	E2
In the chilling wintry blast	E2
Since for threescore years and ten	F2
She has done the work of men	F2
'Tis not strange that she should fall	G2
Weak and helpless by the wall	G2
Nevermore to come and go	K
To and from Menaggio	K
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Gently lift her old gray head	U
Bear her homeward She is dead	U
Fallen like a faithful horse	H2
At the limit of its course	H2
Fallen on the stony road	G
Uncomplaining 'neath her load	G
And the heart within her breast	O
For the first time finds its rest	O
Rest that it could never know	K
Coming from Menaggio	K
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Sound again O Christmas bells	I2
Peace on Earth your song foretells	I2
It has come in truth to one	J2
Whose long pilgrimage is done	J2
Merciful her quick release	I2
Blessed her eternal peace	I2
Yet I know that day by day	K
As she no more comes my way	K
I shall miss her as I go	K
To and from Menaggio	K

John L. Stoddard

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