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THE PLAYMATES by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: WHO ARE THY PLAYMATES, BOY
Last Line: "NEW-BORN, IS JOY."
Subject(s): HAPPINESS; JESUS CHRIST; JOY; DELIGHT;
WHO are thy playmates, boy?
"My favorite is Joy,
Who brings with him his sister, Peace, to stay
The livelong day.
I love them both; but he
Is most to me."

And where thy playmates now,
O man of sober brow?
"Alas! dear Joy, the merriest, is dead.
But I have wed
Peace; and our babe, a boy,
New-born, is Joy."



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