Good King Wenceslas
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1. Good King Wenceslas looked out on the Feast
of Stephen,
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when the
snow lay 'round about, deep and crisp and even.
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Brightly
shone the moon that night, though the frost was cruel,
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when a poor man came in sight, gath'ring winter fu…..el.
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2. "Hither, page, and stand by me, if
thou know'st it, telling !
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Yonder
peasant, who is he? Where and what his dwelling?"
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"Sire,
he lives a good league hence, underneath the mountain.
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Right against the forest fence by Saint Agnes' foun…tain."
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3. "Bring me flesh and bring me wine,
bring me pine logs hither.
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Thou and I
shall see him dine, when we bear them
thither."
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monarch, forth they went, forth they went together,
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through the rude wind's wild lament and the bitter wea…ther.
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4. "Sire, the night is darker now, and the wind blows stronger.
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Fails my
heart, I know not how, I can go no longer."
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"Mark
my footsteps, good my page, tread thou in them boldly.
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Thou shall find the winter's rage freeze thy blood less co…..ldly."
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5. In his master's step he trod, where the
snow lay dinted.
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Heat was
in the very sod which the Saint had printed.
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Therefore,
Christian men, be sure, wealth or rank possessing.
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Ye, who
now will bless the poor, shall
yourselves find ble..ssing.