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    Christmas Roses
    Christmas Roses
    Christmas Roses
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    Christmas Roses

    By Robert Ellice Mack and Lizzie Lawson

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013

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      Christmas Roses - Robert Ellice Mack

      Project Gutenberg's Christmas Roses, by Lizzie Lawson and Robert Ellice Mack

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Christmas Roses

      Author: Lizzie Lawson

      Robert Ellice Mack

      Release Date: May 29, 2008 [EBook #25634]

      Language: English

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      Christmas Roses

      Christmas Roses

      by

      Lizzie Lawson

      and

      Robert Elice Mack

      London:

      Griffith, Farran & Company

      St. Paul’s Churchyard.

      Christmas Roses

      Christmas Roses

      A BUNCH of Christmas Roses, dear,

      To greet my fairest child,

      I plucked them in my garden where

      The drifting snow lay piled.

      I cannot bring thee violets dear,

      Or cowslips growing wild,

      Or daisy chain for thee to wear,

      For thee to wear, my child.

      For all the grassy meadows near

      Are clad with snow, my child;

      Through all the days of winter drear

      No ray of sun has smiled.

      I

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