For the twelfth night

Sing softly the cherries
Red, red, sweet and good
Sing apples and oranges,
The cinnamon food.

Dance swiftly the cider,
Spin more than you should
For liquor and laughter
Will lighten your load.

Declaim the roast turkey
And riddle the sauce
Potatoes are stories
Of riches and loss.

Pipe merrily carrots,
Drum beets till they bleed
They root down to darkness
Who started as seed.

Oh, candy the greetings
You give to your guests
The wassail is fleeting
And life ends in death.

So taffy your handshake
And ginger the kiss
Bake huggings like muffins
A brave eucharist.

Be feast for our Christmas
And I'll be the food
Beg Christ to assist us
In everything good