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The play is done the curtain drops	A
Slow falling to the prompter's bell	B
A moment yet the actor stops	A
And looks around to say farewell	B
It is an irksome word and task	C
And when he's laughed and said his say	D
He shows as he removes the mask	C
A face that's anything but gay	D
	-
One word ere yet the evening ends	E
Let's close it with a parting rhyme	F
And pledge a hand to all young friends	E
As fits the merry Christmas time	F
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On life's wide scene you too have parts	G
That Fate ere long shall bid you play	D
Good night with honest gentle hearts	G
A kindly greeting go alway	H
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Goodnight I'd say the griefs the joys	I
Just hinted in this mimic page	J
The triumphs and defeats of boys	I
Are but repeated in our age	J
I'd say your woes were not less keen	K
Your hopes more vain than those of men	L
Your pangs or pleasures of fifteen	K
At forty five played o'er again	L
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I'd say we suffer and we strive	M
Not less nor more as men than boys	I
With grizzled beards at forty five	M
As erst at twelve in corduroys	I
And if in time of sacred youth	N
We learned at home to love and pray	D
Pray Heaven that early Love and Truth	N
May never wholly pass away	D
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And in the world as in the school	O
I'd say how fate may change and shift	P
The prize be sometimes with the fool	O
The race not always to the swift	P
The strong may yield the good may fall	Q
The great man be a vulgar clown	R
The knave be lifted over all	Q
The kind cast pitilessly down	R
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Who knows the inscrutable design	S
Blessed be He who took and gave	T
Why should your mother Charles not mine	S
Be weeping at her darling's grave	T
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We bow to Heaven that will'd it so	I
That darkly rules the fate of all	Q
That sends the respite or the blow	I
That's free to give or to recall	Q
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This crowns his feast with wine and wit	U
Who brought him to that mirth and state	V
His betters see below him sit	U
Or hunger hopeless at the gate	V
Who bade the mud from Dives' wheel	W
To spurn the rags of Lazarus	I
Come brother in that dust we'll kneel	W
Confessing Heaven that ruled it thus	I
	-
So each shall mourn in life's advance	I
Dear hopes dear friends untimely killed	X
Shall grieve for many a forfeit chance	I
And longing passion unfulfilled	X
Amen whatever fate be sent	Y
Pray God the heart may kindly glow	I
Although the head with cares be bent	Y
And whitened with the winter snow	I
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Come wealth or want come good or ill	Z
Let young and old accept their part	A2
And bow before the Awful Will	Z
And bear it with an honest heart	A2
Who misses or who wins the prize	I
Go lose or conquer as you can	B2
But if you fail or if you rise	I
Be each pray God a gentleman	C2
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A gentleman or old or young	D2
Bear kindly with my humble lays	I
The sacred chorus first was sung	D2
Upon the first of Christmas days	I
The shepherds heard it overhead	E2
The joyful angels raised it then	L
Glory to Heaven on high it said	E2
And peace on earth to gentle men	L
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My song save this is little worth	F2
I lay the weary pen aside	G2
And wish you health and love and mirth	F2
As fits the solemn Christmas tide	G2
As fits the holy Christmas birth	F2
Be this good friends our carol still	Z
Be peace on earth be peace on earth	F2
To men of gentle will	Z

William Makepeace Thackeray

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