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GUESTS AT YULE ''Noël! Noël!''

Cease, cease, each Christmas bell!

Under the holly bough,

Where the happy children throng and shout,

What shadow seems to flit about?

Is it the mother, then, who died

Ere the greens were sere last Christmas-tide?

Hush, falling chimes! Cease, cease, my rhymes!

The guests are gathered now.

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