"So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! Yet, I feel, If someone said on Christmas Eve, Come see the oxen kneel In the lonely barton by yonder comb Our childhood used to know Hoping it might be so."
— Christmas Eve

January 1, 1970

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Thomas Hardy in: Hester Lessard et al., Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community, UBC Press, 1 January 2011, p. 137.