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The Ceremonies For Candlemas Day

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Kindle the Christmas brand, and then
  Till sunset let it burn;
Which quench’d, then lay it up again
  Till Christmas next return.
Part must be kept wherewith to teend
  The Christmas log next year,
And where ’tis safely kept, the fiend
  Can do no mischief there.

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