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Show I Christmas Eve 1 g BB"1Ermn.iaChic.goPo.t HID wind. Bath. ow ,hat And tranquil under dear moonlight, Drd earth just more b slumber's depth, While shepherds silent vigil kept. And far in hovel, hut and town. To sleep the wen, Uid them dowu? Did lambs break silence in their beds Or was the very air flM, While star, were wheeling orerhesd? With titt new world-molding name? Did quiver of an angel's wing Athwart the light swift ripples fling? Did rock and grass, frost-riven tree Feel something of their ecstasy. And burst anew in leaf and flower, As at rich summer's fertile hour? ' Did shepherds throw their crook, away. Each one himself a king that day. While over Mary's modest head, The great light gathered, broke and apread, 'Til all the world .hone white and gold, A wondrous glory, power untold? Did unborn aeedlings, deep in earth. Perceive that radiance, know it. worth? |