In a Drear-Nighted December

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1. In a drear-nighted December,
2. Too happy, happy tree,
3. Thy branches ne'er remember
4. Their green felicity:
5. The north cannot undo them,
6. With a sleety whistle through them;
7. Nor frozen thawings glue them
8. From budding at the prime.
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10. In a drear-nighted December,
11. Too happy, happy brook,
12. Thy bubblings ne'er remember
13. Apollo's summer look;
14. But with a sweet forgetting,
15. They stay their crystal fretting,
16. Never, never petting
17. About the frozen time.
18.  
19. Ah! would 't were so with many
20. A gentle girl and boy!
21. But were there ever any
22. Writh'd not at passèd joy?
23. To know the change and feel it,
24. When there is none to heal it,
25. Nor numbèd sense to steal it,
26. Was never said in rhyme.