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By the Fireside.
“ The roads should blossom, the roads should bloom,So fair a bride shall leave her home!Should blossom and bloom with garlands gay,So fair a bride shall pass to-day!”
This old Te Deum, rustic rites attending,  Seemed from the clouds descending;  When lo! a merry companyOf rosy village girls, clean as the eye,  Each one with her attendant swain,Came to the cliff, all singing the same strain;Resembling there, so near unto the sky,Rejoicing angels, that kind Heaven had sentFor their delight and our encouragement.     Together blending,     And soon descending     The narrow sweep     Of the hill-side steep,
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