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Edgar Guest - The Day Of DaysEdgar Guest - The Day Of Days
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A year is filled with glad events:     The best is Christmas day, But every holiday presents     Its special round of play, And looking back on boyhood now     And all the charms it knew, One day, above the rest, somehow,     Seems brightest in review. That day was finest, I believe;     Though many grown-ups scoff, When mother said that we could leave     Our shoes and stockings off. Through all the pleasant days of spring     We begged to know once more The joy of barefoot wandering     And quit the shoes we wore; But always mother shook her head     And answered with a smile: "It is too soon, too soon," she said.     "Wait just a little while." Then came that glorious day at last     When mother let us know That fear of taking cold was past     And we could barefoot go. Though Christmas day meant much to me,     And eagerly I`d try The first boy on the street to be     The Fourth day of July, I think: the summit of my joy     Was reached that happy day Each year, when, as a barefoot boy,     I hastened out to play. Could I return to childhood fair,     That day I think I`d choose When mother said I needn`t wear     My stockings and my shoes.
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