Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Boxing Day:
Christmas 1860, by Aubrey de Vere
Alone, among thy books, once more I sit;
No sound there stirs except the flapping fire;
Strange shadows of old times about me flit
As sinks the midnight lamp or flickers higher
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