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...Roads
By
Seabury Quinn

With illustrations
by Virgil Finlay

1948



To

MARY HELEN

and "Mr. Son," remembering joyous
Christmastides together



It's a long way round the year, my dears,
A long way round the year.
I met the frost and flame, my dears,
I found the smile and tear.
The wind blew high on the pine-topp'd hill,
And cut me keen on the moor;
The heart of the stream was frozen still
As I tapped the miller's door.

I tossed them holly in hall and cot,
And bade them right good cheer,
But stayed me not in any spot
For I traveled round the year,
To bring the Christmas joy, my dears,
To your eyes so bonnie and true,
And a mistletoe bough for you, my dears,
A mistletoe bough for you.

- Virginia Woodward Cloud*


*By permission of Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc.



...Roads