Christmas Verse From The Queanbeyan Observer
A 1007 Christmas poem extols keeping the childlike heart amid aging years. It contrasts gaiety and sorrow, urges embracing joy and memory, and mocks Nero and Rome as symbols of distraction while urging faith, remembrance, and cheerful living through time.
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Nero
Rome
Christmas at The Mermaid unfolds in a London coffee room
The Mer maid hosts a festive scene with a grand pudding and guests bound for South Africa. Primula Denison, pale and weary, seeks her uncle Mr Anderson in London. Archibald James invites her to stay, guides her through the city, and a quiet Christmas apart looms as he departs to Trenteton, hoping for word from Anderson.
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Archibald James
London
Masterman
Scratchley
Anderson
Archibald
Mrs. Bannerman
Mr. Anderson
England
Cape Town
Southampton
Robert
Eriente
Europe
Mr. James
Primula
Ford
Trenterton
Prosene
Eea
Roposal
Ciscoe
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Thomas Cobb
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Primula Denison