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Speaker 1: Christmas Day, Was it a fancy bread of vagrant guests,
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Speaker 1: or well remembered fact that he was born when half
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Speaker 1: the world was wintry and forlorn, in nature's utmost season
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Speaker 1: of distress. And did the simple earth indeed confess destitution
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Speaker 1: and its craving need wearing the white and penitential weed
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Speaker 1: meet symbol of judicial barrenness. So be it, for in
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Speaker 1: truth tis ever so that when the winter of the
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Speaker 1: soul is bare, the seed of heaven at first begins
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Speaker 1: to grow, peeping abroad in desert of despair. Full many
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Speaker 1: a flowret good and sweet and fair, is kindly wrapped
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Speaker 1: in coverlet of snow,