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cJcross the bridge, one Opnstmas d 
 
 Wo sped from out tpe somb iwn, 
 
 O er |?ills and valleys far away 
 
 Where fields were bare anc; md brown 
 
 ($fy\)e wide free space, the azure dome. 
 
 With golden arrows raining down. 
 Impelled us far and long !o roam. 
 
 Qi'O seek; for mosses areen and brown; 
 Por lichens rare beyond compare 
 
 Unci mosses green and brown. 
 
Wc wandered on 
 
 We found dun and gray 
 
 In man Jowy no 
 
 ose bare fi seda< 
 
 Una graceful is of softest sn 
 
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 Wbiob babbled 
 Wf mosses green, now all unseen 
 Deneatb t be pearly snow. 
 
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(ij>ben found we in i 'red pic 
 
 (ZckV obristmas morn, a '. still. 
 
 Ond mirrored in its placid fa 
 
 »e slopin and tree and i 
 
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 On ! we micic wander far an 
 
 Qnd see n oned L< air 
 
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 [\are moss and 
 
Hai ! b\ \\)& lake a cottage sto 
 
 Where sought we rest \\)o stmas-da 
 
 olose by r?adow of the wood, — 
 
 While all the scene kept holiday. 
 (iphen. said we, in 1 be dreariest time 
 
 When ail seems bleak and sere and 
 (dcod s aoodness with our needs beeps 
 
 Us winter blossoms j »e mold, 
 
 Ws mosses fain and lichens rare 
 
 Prom ou1 Decembers cold. 
 
 
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