THE CHRISTMAS PIE
"Come, guard this night the Christmas Pie,
That the Thiefe, though ne'er so slie,
With his Flesh-hooks don't come nie
To catch it
From him who all alone sits there,
Having his eyes still in his care,
And a deale of nightly feare,
To watch it."
From Hesperides, by Robert Herrick
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