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Show oo WITH CHRISTMAS CHEER Undecked must fare my tiny attic room By rubied holly boughs this ChriBi-mastide, ChriBi-mastide, Nor snowy taper light the winter gloom Where Poverty and I peer side by Bide. Juid yet within its murky gable drear, By dingy city hovels prisoned fast, There gleams, alight with love and Christmas cheer, Each unforgotten Christmas of the past. J Their Yule logs flicker bright upon tho wall, - Their well-known footsteps climb mv narrow stair, ! Their voices through the heartsick stillness call, Their fir-swoet fragrance greets me everywhere, No happy child with eager face aglow. Close clinging to its busy mother's! hand, Whose joy I have not felt, and still mav know, Whose breathless whisper fail to understand. un-derstand. Oh. God, for this Thy gift of memories mem-ories dear, That Time caji neither dim nor take away. For love, and home, and warm-lit Christmas cheer I bring thee grateful thanks this Christmas day. Undecked must fare my tiny attic room Whero Poverty and I sit side by side, But holly-wreathed, together through the gloom, The Past and I keep joyful Chrlst-mastide. |