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December 8.

December 9.

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Shout seen & custo song as thou dost treat it.
E. B. Browning.

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R De ever did run smooth.

Shakespeare?

Kasummer Night's Dream).

December 12.

When Time who steals cur years away,

Shaft seal or pleasures too,

The memory of the past will stay

And bat our joys renew.

Moore.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so

fst, as love can with a timid thread,

Burton.

December II.

December 12.

There's a day of all days the most dear,

Sure the very best day of the year,

When I was a bride, with my boy at my side— Him that courted me down at Kilmere.

C. Barnard.

Secure from bondage and all servile harms;
But more, most happy in my husband's arms.
John Marston.

December 14.

O! who would live alone,

Yawning and staring sadly in the fire,
Till celibacy becomes a weary life?

Pope.

What is there in the vale of life
Half so delightful as a wife?

Cowper.

December 15:

Her every look, her every smile,

Shot right and left a score of arrows; I thought 'twas Venus from her isle;

I wonder'd where she'd left her sparrows.

Winthrop M. Praed.

Fill'd with her love, may I be rather grown
Mad with much heart than ideot with none.

John Donne.

December 14.

December 15.

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