In Praise Of Christmas

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All hail to the days that merit more praise
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Than all of the rest of the year
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And welcome the nights that double delights
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As well for the poor as the peer

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Good fortune attend each merry man's friend
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That doth but the best that he may
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Forgetting old wrongs with carols and songs
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To drive the cold winter away

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'Tis ill for a mind to anger inclined
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To think of small injuries now
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If wrath be to seek, do not lend her thy cheek
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Nor let her inhabit thy brow

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Cross out of thy books malevolent looks
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Both beauty and youth's decay
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And wholly consort with mirth and with sport
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To drive the cold winter away

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This time of the year is spent in good cheer
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And neighbors together do meet
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To sit by the fire with friendly desire
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Each other in love to greet

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Old grudges forgot are put in the pot
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All sorrows aside they lay
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The old and the young doth carol this song
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To drive the cold winter away

[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
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When Christmastide comes in like a bride
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With holly and ivy clad
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Twelve days in the year much mirth and good cheer
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In every household is had

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The country guise is then to devise
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Some gambols of Christmas play
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Whereat the young men do the best that they can
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To drive the cold winter away

[Outro]
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