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Christ’s Nativity · Ririro.com - Poetry

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Speaker 1: Christ's Nativity. Awake, glad heart, get up and sing. It
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Speaker 1: is the birthday of thy King. Awake, Awake. The sun
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Speaker 1: doth shake light from his locks, and all the way
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Speaker 1: breathing perfumes doth spice the day. Awake, Awake, Hark, how
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Speaker 1: the wood rings, winds whisper, and the busy springs a concert.
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Speaker 1: Make awake. Awake. Man is their high priest, and should
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Speaker 1: rise to offer up the sacrifice. I would I were
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Speaker 1: some bird or star fluttering in woods, or lifted far
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Speaker 1: above this inn and road of sin, then either star
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Speaker 1: or bird should be shining or singing still to THEE.
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Speaker 1: I would I had in my best part fit rooms
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Speaker 1: for thee, or that my heart were so clean as
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Speaker 1: thy manger was. But I am all filth and obscene.
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Speaker 1: Yet if thou wilt, thou canst make clean. Sweet Jesus
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Speaker 1: will then let no more this leper haunt and soil
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Speaker 1: thy door, cure him, ease him, O release him, and
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Speaker 1: let once more, by mystic birth, the Lord of life
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Speaker 1: be borne in earth