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The Happy Time

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Two gloomy scenes may be,     Or count you three:     A building hope all crushed at morn,     A bridal day in clouds of rain,     And night that keeps a mother's pain     For tidings of a child forlorn.     Of happy times count more,     Admit these four:     A flower of promise rich with day,     A son with victories that wear     A halo on his mother's way:     And friends whose hearts ring like a chime     Across the world at Christmas time.

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