<h4><SPAN name="SONNET_WITH_THE_COMPLIMENTS_OF_THE_SEASON" id="SONNET_WITH_THE_COMPLIMENTS_OF_THE_SEASON"></SPAN>SONNET WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON</h4>
<p><span class="font">TO A POPULAR LEADER MUCH TO BE CONGRATULATED</span><br/>
<span class="font">ON THE AVOIDANCE OF A STRIKE AT CHRISTMAS.</span><br/>
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I know you. You will hail the huge release,<br/>
Saying the sheathing of a thousand swords,<br/>
In silence and injustice, well accords<br/>
With Christmas bells. And you will gild with grease<br/>
The papers, the employers, the police,<br/>
And vomit up the void your windy words<br/>
To your New Christ; who bears no whip of cords<br/>
For them that traffic in the doves of peace.<br/>
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The feast of friends, the candle-fruited tree,<br/>
I have not failed to honour. And I say<br/>
It would be better for such men as we,<br/>
And we be nearer Bethlehem, it we lay<br/>
Shot dead on scarlet snows for liberty,<br/>
Dead in the daylight upon Christmas Day.<br/>
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