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SONNET, WRITTEN IN THE BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED VOLUME, “CHRISTMAS WITH THE POETS.”
[Happy 'twill be upon some future day]
Happy 'twill be upon some future day,Some welcome winter day of frost and snow.
When with the cold the Sun'sround face shall glow
Cheerful and ruddy as a boy's at play:—
If in some window-seat that o'er the Bay
Peeps calmly out, and o'er the rocks below—
Some modest oriel round whose casements grow
The pyracantha's crimson berries gay,—
If we behold our children's eyes display
Delighted wonder, and their glad looks show
How they would love with rapid feet to go
O'er each white field and pictured snow-fill'd way,
That in this book make Winter smile like May,
And Christmas gleam like Christmas long ago.
February, 1851.
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