Page:Poems, Volume 1, Coates, 1916.djvu/144

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CHRISTMAS EVE

'T would be a time o' joy, Mither!
But thinkin' o' they things,
'T is may-be well he should be there,
Wi' ward o' angel-wings;
I doubt they'd miss him so!—the kine,
The shepherds, and the kings!