<h2> THE TIME OF TRUCE </h2>
<p>Two young lads from childhood up<br/>
Drank together friendship's cup:<br/>
Joe was glad with Bill at play,<br/>
Bill was home to Joe alway.<br/>
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On their friendship came the blight<br/>
Of a little thoughtless fight;<br/>
Then, alas! each passing day<br/>
Farther bore these friends away.<br/>
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There was grief in either heart,<br/>
Bleeding deep from sorrow's dart,<br/>
When in thoughtfulness again<br/>
Each beheld the other's pain.<br/>
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But the shades of night are furled<br/>
When the morning takes the world,<br/>
And the Christmas days of peace<br/>
Make our little quarrels cease.<br/>
<br/>
Bill and Joe on Christmas Day<br/>
Met as in the olden way;<br/>
Bill put out his hand to Joe,—<br/>
It was Christmas Day, you know.<br/>
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Bill and Joe are friends again,<br/>
And to them long years remain;<br/>
Time may take them far away,<br/>
They keep Christmas every day.<br/></p>
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