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SLEIGHING.

BY OUR POETICAL EDITOR. - AMENDED BY OUR CYNICAL EDITOR.

CLEAR and cold, while 'neath the starlight

Swiftly flying o'er the snow

(Comes a numbing, dead sensation

Over every chilly toe).

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From the runners, feathery cloudlets

See the whirling snow-dust fly

(While the tears in slow procession

Drop from every smarting eye).

In this wintry world, my darling,

With the stars we are alone

(Save the presence of a fretful,

Fat, and freezing chaperone).

See where through the thickest darkness

Dull and red the firelight glows

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