Master And Boy.
"WHO is this little one lying," Said Time, "at my garden-gate, Moaning and sobbing and crying, Out in the cold so late?" "They lurked until we came near, Master and I," the child said, "Then caught me, with 'Welcome, New-year! Happy Year! Golden-head!' "See Christmas-day, my Master, On the meadow a mile away! Father Time, make me run faster! I'm the Shadow of Christmas-day!" "Run, my child; still he's in sight! Only look well to his track; Little Shadow, run like the light, He misses you at his back!" Old Time sat down in the sun On a grave-stone--his legs were numb: "When the boy to his master has run," He said, "Heaven's New Year is come!"
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