Paul Laurence Dunbar Christmas Poems

DE win' is blowin' wahmah,
An hit's blowin' f'om de bay;
Dey's a so't o' mist a-risin'
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De win' is hollahin' 'Daih you' to de shuttahs an' de fiah,
De snow's a-sayin' 'Got you' to de groun',
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The snow lies deep upon the ground,
And winter's brightness all around
Decks bravely out the forest sere,
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STEP wid de banjo an' glide wid de fiddle,
Dis ain' no time fu' to pottah an' piddle;
Fu' Christmas is comin', it's right on de way,
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Ring out, ye bells!
All Nature swells
With gladness at the wondrous story, -
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BREEZES blowin' middlin' brisk,
Snow-flakes thro' the air a-whisk,
Fallin' kind o' soft an' light,
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