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 Harlequin

With blaze of starry splendor, and with brilliance of the

moon,

With fir-trees dressed grotesquely, like the slippered Panta- loon,

With snowflakes light as fairies, and with slender ivy vines In their spangled winter-dresses, like a host of Columbines ; With sheen of silver scenery, and sleigh-bells' merry din, The whole world laughed and capered 'neath the wand of

Harlequin !

With the cap and bells of Folly he invested Father Time, When the Frost King gave the signal for the Christmas pantomime !

SWAMPSCOTT, I9O2.

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