How's this for a deconstruction of Saint Nicholas?
I like it.
I also like this poem, which has nothing to do with Saint Nicholas:
Now
Winter Nights Enlarge
Now
winter nights enlarge
The
number of their hours;
And
clouds their storms discharge
Upon the
airy towers.
Let now
the chimneys blaze
And cups
o’erflow with wine,
Let
well-turned words amaze
With
harmony divine.
Now
yellow waxen lights
Shall
wait on honey love
While
youthful revels, masques, and courtly sights
Sleep’s
leaden spells remove.
This time
doth well dispense
With
lovers’ long discourse;
Much speech
hath some defense,
Though
beauty no remorse.
All do
not all things well;
Some
measures comely tread,
Some
knotted riddles tell,
Some
poems smoothly read.
The
summer hath his joys,
And
winter his delights;
Though
love and all his pleasures are but toys,
They
shorten tedious nights.
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