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SONGS AND BALLADS 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.

THE PILGRIMS

FALSTAFF'S SONG

he that died o' Wednesday?

What place on earth hath he?

A tailor's yard beneath, I wot,

Where worms approaching be; 382