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Merry Christmas from Old Books With Grace! In this episode, I think about the great poet and thinker T.S. Eliot's midcentury poem, \"The Cultivation of Christmas Trees,\" and the darkness and light of this season. Check out the text on oldbookswithgrace.com.

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T.S. Eliot's "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"