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Music on Christmas Morning · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Music on Christmas morning. Music I love, But never strain
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  Speaker 1: could kindle raptures so divine, so grief assuage, so conquer pain, pregnancy,
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  Speaker 1: and rouse this pensive heart of mind omen clays on
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  Speaker 1: Christmas morn, upon the wintry breezes, born though darkness still
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  Speaker 1: her empire keep crimson must pass ere morning break from
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  Speaker 1: troubled dreams or slumbers deep. That music kindly bids us wake.
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  Speaker 1: It calls us with an angel's voice, to wake and
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  Speaker 1: worship and rejoice, to greet with joy the glorious morn
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  Speaker 1: which angels welcomed long ago, when our redeeming Lord was born,
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  Speaker 1: to bring the light of heaven below the powers of darkness,
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  Speaker 1: to dispel and rescue earth from death and hell. While
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  Speaker 1: listening to that sacred strain, bankrupt raptured spirit soars on high.
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  Speaker 1: I seem to hear those songs again, resounding through the
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  Speaker 1: open sky that kindled such divine delight in those who
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  Speaker 1: watched their flocks by night with them. I celebrate his birth,
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  Speaker 1: positioned to God in highest Heaven, good will to men,
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  Speaker 1: and peace on earth to us. A savior king is given.
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  Speaker 1: Our God is come to claim his own and Satan's
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  Speaker 1: power is overthrown a sinless God. For sinful men blister,
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  Speaker 1: to suffer, and to bleed. Hell must renounce its empire.
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  Speaker 1: Then the price is paid. The world is freed, and
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  Speaker 1: Satan's self must now confess that Christ has earned a
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  Speaker 1: right to bless Now, holy peace may smile from heaven
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  Speaker 1: file nuf, and heavenly truth from earth shall spring. The
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  Speaker 1: captive's galling bonds are riven. For our redeemer is our King,
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  Speaker 1: and he that gave his blood for men will lead
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  Speaker 1: us home to God again