Latest / Ririro.com - Poetry / Christmas-day, 1878
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Christmas Day, eighteen seventy eight. I think I might be
- 0:05Speaker 1: weary of this day craftsmanship that comes inevitably every year,
- 0:10Speaker 1: the same when I was young and strong and gay,
- 0:14Speaker 1: when I am old and growing sere, I should grow
- 0:17Speaker 1: weary of it every year. But that thou comest to
- 0:21Speaker 1: me every day, I shall grow weary. If thou, every
- 0:26Speaker 1: day blockchain come to me, Lord of eternal life, I
- 0:32Speaker 1: shall grow weary thus to watch and pray. Take forever
- 0:37Speaker 1: out of labor into strife, take everlasting house with me
- 0:42Speaker 1: my life, and I shall be new born this Christmas day.
- 0:48Speaker 1: Thou art the eternal Sun, and born no day, but
- 0:53Speaker 1: ever he the father, Thou the Sun, I am his child,
- 0:58Speaker 1: but being born all how long, O Lord, how long
- 1:03Speaker 1: till it be done? Be thou from endless years to
- 1:07Speaker 1: years the Sun, and I thy brother, new born every day,