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A Christmas Prayer · Ririro.com - Poetry

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Speaker 1: A Christmas prayer, not yet for us. May Christmas bring
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Speaker 1: good will to men and peace in our dark sky?
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Speaker 1: No angels sing, not yet the great release for men.
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Speaker 1: When war shall cease, so must the guns, our carols make,
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Speaker 1: our gifts, Must bullets be for us? No Christmas bells
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Speaker 1: shall wake these ruined homes, shall see no Christmas revelry.
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Speaker 1: In hardened hearts we fain would greet the Babe at
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Speaker 1: Christmas bourn. But lo he comes, with pierced feet, wearing
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Speaker 1: a crown of thorn. His side, a spear has torn.
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Speaker 1: For tired eyes are all too dim, our hearts too
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Speaker 1: full of pain, our ears too deaf to hear the
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Speaker 1: hymn which angels sing in vain. The Christ is born again,
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Speaker 1: Oh Jesus, pitiful, draw near, that even we may see
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Speaker 1: the little child who knew not fear. Thus would we
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Speaker 1: picture Thee, unmarred by agony or death and pain triumphant.
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Speaker 1: Yet bid thou thy Harper's play, that we may hear them,
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Speaker 1: and forget sorrow and all dismay, and welcome THEE to
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Speaker 1: stay with us on Christmas Day