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A tale that the poet Rückert told / To German children, in days of old; / Disguised in a random, rollicking rhyme / Like a merry mummer of ancient time, / And sent, in its English dress, to please / The little folk of the Christmas trees.
A little fir grew in the midst of the wood / Contented and happy, as young trees should.