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Christmas Morn · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Christmas morn, there's a holy light like a beacon, bright
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  Speaker 1: afar over land and sea soft its lambent ray o'er
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  Speaker 1: the broad earth plays with a rosy dancing glee, and
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  Speaker 1: the topmost peak of the mountain's bleak blankets fair in
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  Speaker 1: the glowing morn, over wood and tarn sweeps the glorious
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  Speaker 1: dawn to herald the child Christ born. White the sea
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  Speaker 1: waves fling like an angel's wing off the foam as
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  Speaker 1: their blue crests rise, while each gallant ship with a
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  Speaker 1: skim and a dip neither the wind's lap speeding flies,
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  Speaker 1: and the sailor's song is borne along refuge of the
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  Speaker 1: golden morn. For joyous he sings as the mast he
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  Speaker 1: swings to Harold the Child Christ born in the land
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  Speaker 1: of snow, where the keen winds blow and the ice
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  Speaker 1: king holds his sway. A glittering sheen on the plains
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  Speaker 1: is seen as tribute to him. They pay while merrily
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  Speaker 1: sing with appeal and a ringing the bells on the
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  Speaker 1: crystal morn as gaily they chime with silvery rhyme to
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  Speaker 1: Harold the Child Christ Born to his sea girt home,
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  Speaker 1: where e'er he may roam selectively death, the thoughts of
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  Speaker 1: Britain's sun in city or plain on the crested main.
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  Speaker 1: The heart of the absent one dreams with ecstasy, seems tropical,
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  Speaker 1: desmorned as he hears the voice of his loved rejoice turbulence.
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  Speaker 1: To Harold the child christ Born in dreams born along,
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  Speaker 1: he joins the glad throng threading and wassail gay and
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  Speaker 1: the boar's head bold as in Noel. Old blankets crowns
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  Speaker 1: the feast of the day, the holly's red blush, mid,
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  Speaker 1: the ivy's crush, the mistletoe greets the morn with kisses
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  Speaker 1: to claim in Love's holy name. To Harold the child
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  Speaker 1: christ Born. Then Charity, sweet with most gracious feet, cling
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  Speaker 1: forth o'er the smiling land, to widow's relief, to fatherless grief,
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  Speaker 1: she bringeth a helping hand for peace and goodwill. The
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  Speaker 1: whole world does fill with with the dawn of the
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  Speaker 1: Noel morn. Let every heart sing a glad welcoming to
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  Speaker 1: Harold the child christ Born.